Brian Holcombe is an artist whose practice focuses on ceramics, sculpture, photography, and bookmaking; exploring the intersection of materiality, structure, and memory. Holcombe engages with clay as both a sculptural and architectural medium, constructing hand-built vessels through a slow, intuitive process. He approaches the medium like drawing, cutting bands and shapes from rolled clay slabs and assembling them as one might lay bricks. These stacked, perforated forms evoke early Asian ceramic lanterns, pedestal bowls, and burial vessels -- functional objects that served both life and spirit. Through repetition, mirroring, and structural layering, Holcombe's work in ceramics draws parallels between the human-made and natural worlds. The inky, glazed surfaces suggest objects excavated from a tar pit, while the stacked clay forms echo the layered cross-sections of geological time. Holcombe's work interrogates how forms and materials hold meaning, challenge memory, and embody ritual.