For this special Amazon edition of ArtNow Report, Ellis presents the
“Vagem” collection—a series of pieces exploring horizontality as both
a symbolic and physical gesture. Their edges contract and expand,
evoking the moment a seed finds its shelter. Modeled individually in
dark clay, they reveal the textures of raw clay and the marks of the
artist’s fingers—as if her body remained imprinted on their surfaces.
The “Pods” don’t just contain—they nurture. They are vessels of
potency, like the forest’s own fruits.