I'm Elizabeth Denys, but you should call me "Liz." I use they/them pronouns. I'm a ceramic artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
I create small-batch functional vessels to explore how our built environments shape our relationships with nature, ourselves, and our communities. While working with malleable wet clay, I reflect on the infinite ways we can build an equitable, sustainable future that facilitates abundance, accessibility, and interconnectedness. I build with a variety of processes, slab, coil, and the wheel, to explore the intentions, pacing, and results of processes we use to shape our built environments. Through creating functional pieces that can be incorporated into everyday rituals, I welcome others to reflect on the intended and unintended shapes of their own movements through their environments and communities.
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I created Bike Brooklyn!, a zine that touches on everything I wish I knew when I started biking in Brooklyn. It's one of a handful of zines I've made.
I also co-host and produce Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good computer security for everyone. In every episode, Geoffrey Thomas and I break down complex digital security and privacy topics - everything from password managers to web tracking to installing software safely - into accessible primers and practical takeaways.