I´m Camila, the woman behind Ila Ceramica. I started Ila 5 years ago, after 5 years of being close to clay. Through pottery, I guided my way back to creativity and inspiration, which I had blocked after personal experiences that took me deep within myself. The cyclical nature of the wheel and the repetitive motions of throwing quieted my mind and allowed me to seek deep into the process of centering, which worked from the outside in to center my whole being. After a few years of throwing, I began to experiment with coil building and truly found myself there. Through sculpting, I began to explore inner landscapes, reflect on nature, express bodily experiences and emulate corporeal silhouettes.

It is through matter that I have gained more awareness of myself, and through matter that I have shaped many of my psychic and spiritual yearnings. Creation does have a structural, healing nature and that is why I have begun my studies in psychotherapy, as a way to complement my creative process but also to prepare myself for guiding and accompanying healing processes in a more structured environment.

Although that is not my main practice, I do seek to eventually fuse both areas of my life, in which clay can be a medium through which psychotherapy can also occur.

For now, Ila Ceramica is the vessel which contains all of these processes, inner and outer, tangible and intangible. Today, we are a team of three women which you can read about on here , and I could not be more thankful for being supported and accompanied by these amazing women that have made Ila an ever-growing, ever-evolving project.

I hope that the work I make through the One of a Kind series and the work we share with you through the Permanent Collection can share a space with you in your everyday life.