‘Pompette’ celebrates the wine bottle as an object of fascination and artistry. Each piece transforms this everyday vessel into a symbol of possibility and beauty, highlighting its curves, the way it catches and refracts light, and the stories it holds. Through a dynamic interplay of form, texture, and typography, the collection evokes a sense of wonder and discovery.

Artist Delaney Maher, an art history major whose studies inform her deep appreciation for visual storytelling, draws inspiration from the surrealism of Dalí, the fragmented perspectives of cubism, the provocative spirit of the Dada movement, and the assemblage art of Robert Rauschenberg. Her work also nods to the enchanting planes of Ed Ruscha and the layered narratives of Glenn Ligon. Maher’s lifelong fascination with ephemera — from archiving bottle label and hotel letterheads during her childhood to modern day acquisition of design-led chotskis - imbues the collection with a deep sense of nostalgia and intimacy.

Her background as a graphic designer merges seamlessly with a yearning to create without constraints, drawing on a curated library of textures, ornaments, and type treatments, both found and digital. In Pompette, Maher reimagines the wine bottle as a modern-day muse, weaving fragments of memory and design into compositions that resonate with the loose, luminous creativity of making. Translating to ‘slightly tipsy’ in French, Pompette ellicits the buzzy feeling of making, the looseness of creating and the delightful warmth after a glass of vino.