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Earlier this year, Lynn Basa made an abrupt return to ceramics inspired by images of hundreds of small wind-carved sand formations that appeared overnight on the shores of Lake Michigan near St. Joseph in early January 2022. Seldom seen and short-lived, these “sand hoodoos” launched Lynn Basa back into clay after a decades-long hiatus.

“I've known for a while that I chose encaustic as a painting medium because it had similar properties to clay. The pigment and beeswax mixture is applied while molten hot and sealed by heat, it can be scraped and carved, there's something primal about …