Hand building is the older discipline. Before the wheel, ceramicists pinched, coiled, and slab-built their objects — and these techniques remain the most direct way to impose a concept onto clay. The hand is both tool and decision-maker.
In Daniel's hand-built work, the architectural training becomes most visible. Forms are considered as structures — walls, planes, thresholds. The result is work that transcends the rotational symmetry of the wheel, arriving at geometries and asymmetries that feel deliberate without feeling rigid.
Alongside wheel-thrown functional ware, hand-built work gives the practice its sculptural range — the two approaches in constant conversation, each informing the other.