Maia’s practice follows an understanding of clay as a material with its own agency, to be interacted with, rather than acted upon. Her interest in giving physical form to haptic communication results in forms organically emerging. This culminates with an object as a record of the holistic practice, the firing process allowing the object to become an archive of the making process.

Maia co-founded In The Making, a collaborative project between herself and artist Tressa Thomas, running workshops with a focus on making as a vehicle for community building and healing.