uoqaus

uoqaus is ceramics brand focusing on the continuation and reintepreation of cultural narratives and ceramic making practices. With its roots in Salvadoran idetienty, uoqaus takes delibrate steps to bring forth the context in which it has found itself.

With each object made by hand, Isaac Diaz of uoqaus looks towards Pre-Colombian hand building techniques to help preserve this fleeting, yet ever evolving, realtionship that Latin America has with the earth. Collections of ceramics are released slowly, allowing for deep narrative to build and the construction a visual world that has yet to exist.

The word uoqaus derives from a Finnish word, huokaus, meaning to sigh. uoqaus is a sigh of what can be, a desire for something else.

uoqaus was started in 2019 by Isaac Diaz in Oklahoma City.