"Echt" the German word for "authentic, real", "O" a connector, a circle, geometric, anatomical, oceanic, the infinite nature of time itself. And "Pyaar" the Urdu word for "love" absorbed and poured before the nuances of language and migration settled...the beginning of a spiral.
Together they become something that didn't exist before, a word, an utterance, made-up and conjured, like all names are, with the intent that its sound — whether internal or out loud — calls something forward. A desire to create with our hands that pulls us toward each other, and toward ourselves.
Ectopyaar is what happens when you follow the feeling in your hands: that specific swell, that unmistakable urge that arrives when you're making something true. Not a philosophy per se, but a sensation that seeks a name. A practice premised on the conviction that making what you love is, itself, an act of love: not only for that which is made, but for the generative essence of that love taking up space in the lives of others, and in the world that holds it all.
Rooted in this conviction, ceramic artist and facilitator Amelia Waliany makes objects and holds spaces that could only ever be one of a kind. Welcome.