Ilona Golovina continues this lineage of experimentation and surrender. A New York-based artist originally from Stavropol, Russia, Golovina works with ceramics and mixed media to create visceral, often gravity-defying forms that embrace unpredictability as a creative force. Her practice harnesses natural materials—clay, fire, glass, and salvaged metals—and yields works shaped as much by elemental processes as by her own hand. Through layering, erosion, and alchemical transformation, Golovina invites materiality to speak back, allowing process to take precedence over perfection. Like Cage, she resists imposed order.