Totes and Bags

Where luxury collapses, clay endures. The Bogus Boutique collection reimagines everyday accessories—totes, purses, and handbags—as ceramic artifacts. Handbuilt in stoneware and glazed with intentional unpredictability, these works parody high fashion while elevating disposability into permanence. Each bag is a fossil of consumer desire: distorted, bloated, heavy with metaphor. Some slouch like soft bodies, others retain the memory of movement or use, caught mid-gesture. Buttons don’t close. Straps sag. Clay mimics softness, but nothing here opens—these are sculptures masquerading as fashion,