My inspiration comes from my connection to the earth and the natural world around me. To describe my process would be compared to something as intuitive as breathing, while reflecting an instinct closer to play. The intention with every element I use is to express who I am as well as opening a door for connection. I am drawn to the elements of the earth and find myself being pulled to create using ceramics. The relationship I have with my art reflects my life journey, my process of creation. In sharing my creations, I am extending my soul to you. There’s a universal circle that we are all going through together and being mindful in the ways we connect has shown itself to be healing time and time again. We have all been here before, to connect is to remember.

Alexandra Raughley is a Pocono born and raised artist, always creating through inspiration from the natural world around her. Alex is currently a Transpersonal Art Therapy student and is soon to be a Naropian student in Boulder, CO. Working mainly in ceramics as her creative medium, Alex relates the clay body to the human body emphasizing the connectivity.  She has harvested and processed 3 natural clay bodies, two of which she discovered herself. She experiments in glaze making as well, and has created a new glaze to be used at her previous campus, Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA. The entire creation process is what gives Alex the sense of connection she craves and hopes to relate this feeling of connection through creation to anyone interested in sharing. 

Connecting to the land, the culture, and each other is vital to our human existence.  It is not just about me. It is not just about the artist's experience, but rather about the collective experience. We are all a part of this cycle, predictable yet unknown, and to connect is to remember. Alex is also a poet, which is just as inescapable of an identity as an artist and expresses her creations through performance. The human experience is what we decide to make of it, which can be scary and just as exciting. We are not just forming the pots; we are forming ourselves. 

If you do not create, you will destroy.