Davita Miles

Terra Vita

Hand-formed sculptures shaped from wild-harvested clay.Created as an exploration of resilience, femininity, and the stories our bodies carry

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My story

The beginning

I never set out to become a sculptor.The work began during a season of healing. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, I found myself returning to the earth ~ gathering wild clay from the bottom of the lake of our family propertyOne day, as I shaped the clay in my hands, a woman emerged.She was me.That first sculpture became the beginning of everything that followed.Each piece is hand-built from wild-harvested clay and explores resilience, femininity, and the stories our bodies carry. No two are alike. I embrace the marks, cracks, and textures left by the making process ~ they are reminders that beauty is often found in

The process

Wild clay

Each sculpture begins with wild clay that I hand-harvest from the bottom of our family property on Vancouver Island

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