Teval Gunner- First Sanctuary

Year 2026

Medium : Ceramic Stoneware

Home is not the first place we live. It is not the physical architecture either.It predates any building. It was first formed in the bodies of our ancestors, in what they carried and what they protected. We find their traces in our own DNA, in a memory that is not ours yet lives inside us.

This body of work is about that first sanctuary. About home as something inherited, internal, and continuous.

It is about that contract of belonging. Home as an internal condition, not an external location. The feeling we knew before memory — of being wholly contained and still entirely free — that we spend our lives trying to return to.