Ceramics for the sheer joy of creating

Each piece is born of time, hands, and earth.

Camilo's Story

Origin of a profession.

I started turning when I was young, watching an Oaxacan master turn dough into form. Since then, I never stopped.

For more than thirty years I kept a lathe at home, no matter where I lived. It was what stayed when everything else changed.

Malinalco

the place for my ceramics

Malinalco is where the workshop found its current home. And here, without haste, is where each piece comes to be, not by commission, but for the pleasure of creating it. The form emerges as the wheel turns.

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Gallery

Some of my pieces

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Items for sale

Tláloc Vessel
Stoneware vessel with a geometric glaze in blocks of blue, brown, and beige, inspired by pre-Hispanic textile patterns. Fired in a high-temperature kiln with natural color variations.
Tláloc Vessel
Stoneware vessel with a geometric glaze in blocks of blue, brown, and beige, inspired by pre-Hispanic textile patterns. Fired in a high-temperature kiln with natural color variations.
Tepetate Vessel
Ovoid stoneware vessel in white clay with a lattice-like texture across the entire surface, achieved with a fabric impression during construction. Uniform matte finish that recalls the dry earth of the highlands.
Tepetate Vessel
Ovoid stoneware vessel in white clay with a lattice-like texture across the entire surface, achieved with a fabric impression during construction. Uniform matte finish that recalls the dry earth of the highlands.
Barranca Vessel
White stoneware vessel with vertical incised decoration and brushstrokes in red and brown. The open mouth and the asymmetry of the form reflect the gestural quality of the manual process.
Barranca Vessel
White stoneware vessel with vertical incised decoration and brushstrokes in red and brown. The open mouth and the asymmetry of the form reflect the gestural quality of the manual process.
Milpa Vessel
Stoneware vessel with glaze in shades of blue, brown, and ochre, with geometric block decoration evoking the patterns of cultivated fields. Wheel-thrown with a rustic finish; the color variations are characteristic of the wood-fired kiln process.
Milpa Vessel
Stoneware vessel with glaze in shades of blue, brown, and ochre, with geometric block decoration evoking the patterns of cultivated fields. Wheel-thrown with a rustic finish; the color variations are characteristic of the wood-fired kiln process.

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