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Aberrant Ceramics is the artwork of Aaron Nosheny,
potter and ceramic artist based in Tucson, Arizona. Self-taught and neurodivergent, he has worked in the medium of stoneware clay for 21 years, developing a practice rooted in literal construction and obsessive repetition. He makes non-traditional ceramics in a medium built on tradition, exploring the overlap between wonder and revulsion. Subject matter includes sympathetic monsters, insects, opossums, fast food mascots, and Halloween kitsch.

I am in love with my medium. I love the process of frantically birthing clay monstrosities, subjecting them to an epic trial by fire, and sending them out into the world.



Monday, July 28, 2025

Cockroach Pottery Through the Ages

In December 2000, I visited the Insectarium in Philadelphia.  I bought a mug in the gift shop which had a lump of clay painted to look like a cockroach on the bottom of the mug.
  

In 2014, I started regularly producing pottery, including several inspired by the mug from the Insectarium.

Plain on the outside, molded cockroach on the inside bottom:


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Molded roaches on the outside and inside

I made another series of cockroach cups in 2018:

Negative images of cockroaches (rubber cockroach pressed into the clay)




Cup with sculpted cockroaches




Cup with sculpted roach face and molded cockroach on the inside:



Pot with cockroaches masquerading as eyelashes from 2020:



Cockroach cups from 2021

Radioactive Cockroach Cuddle Cup




Blatta orientalis Cup


Pitterpatter of Little Roach Feet Cup


Gregor the Cockroach Hot Dog Mascot Mug:




Cockroach cups from 2022




Cockroach Cups from 2023:











Cockroach Cup from 2024