My artwork is rooted in my own experiences with acute loss and death, and explores the power of our collective grief, collective dreaming, collective gratitude, and collective love. I create installation and multisensory experiences inviting rest, reflection, and contemplation that are guided by tender wonder through elements like Limitless, a four-channel soundscape I created in collaboration with musician and producer Shane Leonard.

My work explores how repetition, materiality, and color can function as meditative and emotional structures. My current project, Practices in Transformation: grief, gratitude, love, and time, deepens that inquiry by situating those formal concerns within explicitly communal contexts allowing viewers to encounter grief, gratitude, love, and time not as abstract ideas but as lived, embodied experiences.

While clay is my primary material, my practice extends far beyond the object. I work in installation, sound, drawing and painting, and participatory structures that invite viewers into slowed attention and shared stillness. My projects often incorporate hundreds of repeated elements, creating fields of form that register as both intimate and communal scales.

Installation works shift from private contemplation to shared ritual, from isolation to community. Functioning as temporary sanctuaries, where visitors are invited to sit, listen, hold, write, and witness, these spaces connect to the universal sacred. This space is not didactic; it is open allowing people to bring their own histories, losses, and longings into quiet relationship with others.

- Rhonda Willers