Visual Artist and Ceramicist
cairo mo
selected works
Fractured Form I
An exploration of structural tension and the beauty found in controlled fracture. The silver glaze pools into the crevices, catching light like mercury trapped in stone.
Vessel Series
A meditation on containment and void. These vessels reference industrial forms while celebrating the softness of hand-thrown porcelain under oxide washes.
Kiln Memory
Each surface carries the chemical memory of the kiln -- ash deposits creating landscapes that shift between rough and luminous depending on the angle of light.
Fire Traces
Copper oxide transforms unpredictably under extreme heat, leaving traces of green, red, and black that map the invisible currents of flame inside the kiln.
Silent Cup
The intimacy of a drinking vessel meets the drama of metallic glaze. Silver drips arrested mid-fall, frozen in their descent by the cooling kiln.
Wall Fragment
Inspired by the surfaces of brutalist architecture. A wall-mounted piece where volcanic texture creates deep shadow play under changing gallery light.
about
Cairo Mo is a visual artist and ceramicist whose work explores material transformation through handbuilt and thrown vessels and sculptural forms. Working across stoneware and porcelain, he uses processes like raku and atmospheric firing, and intuitive sculpting to create post-industrial forms that play with light and shadow.
His pieces often blur the line between anatomy and architecture, combining skeletal, branching, or monolithic forms with glazes that shift between matte ash and metallic sheen.
Raised in Silicon Valley but based in Brooklyn, Cairo approaches clay as a counterbalance to systems, growth, and optimization, allowing material behavior to guide the final outcome. His practice focuses on the record of making, what the traces of touch, fractures, and fire leave behind as evidence. It raises questions of production, waste, and what happens to the things we make when we’re all gone.
contact
@saladstudios
Studio
SG studio, Ridgewood, NY