Just inside the front door of the Workshop Gallery in Vineyard Haven, nearly 50 ceramic egg flats, each canary-colored and identical to the next, are spread out across the floor. Six-inch ceramic vessels, cast from an antique shot glass and glazed in glossy violet, sit where the eggs should be.

The ceramic artwork — at once foreign and familiar — is part of Islander Salyn Yancey’s exhibit Doppelgänger, on display at the Workshop Gallery through July 6.

Each of Ms. Yancey’s ceramic works begin with an object. Often, it’s something she’s found, like a shot glass or an egg flat she grabbed while working as a “lunch lady” at the West Tisbury School. She casts the objects in plaster to create a mold, then she pours liquid clay “slip” into these molds.

Artist graduated from the regional high school in 2018. — Ray Ewing

This method of “slip casting” is how major ceramics manufacturers mass produce identical sets of plates and pitchers and dishes.

“It’s not throwing, it’s not hand building, it’s another form of ceramics,” she said.

“Ceramics — it’s science, its chemistry, it’s geology,” she added. “It’s all of these parts in a physical form, which I find super cool.”

Ms. Yancey graduated from the regional high school in 2018. She said ceramics and craft instructor Brendan Coogan inspired her to pursue her work as an artist.

“He was a mentor and a friend and someone I could just communicate [with],” Ms. Yancey said.

He inspired her to think about form and aesthetics first, setting aside a more “academic” approach to art and practice, she said.

She continued her education at Alfred University, graduating in December. Then, after spending a few winter months on the Island working at the West Tisbury School, she returned to school this spring for post-bachelor work, where she used the school’s facilities to continue exploring the process of slip-casting.

By slip casting her works, Ms. Yancey said she is able to shift her attention toward color.

“I like to think of it like I’m getting tunnel vision, and then I can really express in color,” Ms. Yancey said.

Warm pastel yellows, pinks, oranges and purples span the works in Doppelgänger. Ms. Yancey applies multiple layers of glaze, trimming new layers, to create a series of perfectly concentric rings, she explained.

Ms. Yancey said her work is also inspired by all manner of serving vessels, from the ones she encountered early on with her father, a professional chef, or in the course of everyday life.

She then turns these items on their head — often, literally. Sometimes a familiar object, like a novelty glass, becomes strange cast in ceramic. Other times, something found, like a light fixture rescued from Chicken Alley, becomes familiar, emptied into a bowl or stacked on top of itself as a jar.