EP26: Yuro Moniz On Craft, Emotion, and the Courage to Build With Your Hands
Description
Yuro Moniz is a multidisciplinary maker and storyteller working between art, design, and culture. After years in fashion, photography, and film, she turned towards ceramics — searching for a tangible, human medium in an increasingly digital world. Her hand-built pieces, often monumental in scale, blend ancient techniques with contemporary emotion, becoming portraits of time, touch, and memory.
What if the most human thing you can do is to build something that lasts?
In this episode, Yuro speaks about transformation, burnout, and rediscovering purpose through clay. She shares how her years in Amsterdam’s creative scene shaped her, why she left the city and social media behind, and how learning from Korean masters redefined her sense of craft. We talk about making a 3.5-meter totem about freedom, balancing motherhood with creation, and how prayer, emotion, and persistence guided her through impossible deadlines.
Yuro reflects on mentorship, legacy, and the role of beauty and imperfection in modern life — showing that true artistry is not about perfection, but about feeling, reflection, and the courage to slow down and touch the world again.
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