You might know the kind of moment I’m describing: those unexpected shifts of light, color, or atmosphere when the world feels briefly heightened. You step out of a building after being deep in your own thoughts, only to find the sky doing something extraordinary—a sunset blooming in layered color as the sun offers its last luminous farewell. Or bright white clouds that billow and unspool, their edges loosening and reshaping themselves in one long exhale across the blue. The s

An artist introduced digital tools to her ceramic studio practice and changed what her work could become.     I slid one last tile into...