“Life Begins well, it begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of a house.”  Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, 1969.

In the beginning there was the landscape and a building. There was the natural environment and the artificial. In an endeavor to separate ourselves from the natural world as a means of protection, we sheltered ourselves. We, and that which we held valuable, took refuge from the natural environs.

Myra Kaha was raised by midwestern intellectuals: an artist and an architect. This inspired an early interest in structure and the abstract. She started making pots and mending books at about the same time, which spurred her interest in physical and metaphoric containers. This odd collection of influences evolved and she continues to address these ideas in her work. Myra currently lives in Seattle, works at Pratt Fine Art Center and just completed her 2-year residency at Pottery Northwest.