Compression and correspondence: embodied making between body, site and clay is a practice-led research project that considers the creative material potential of site, clay and the maker’s body through an expanded ceramic practice. By inhabiting and engaging with distinctive sites and locations, this project investigates how an embodied approach can be applied to ceramic and sculptural work framed by time and context, informed by theories of tacit knowledge. A compressive action that is both metaphorical and physical has been identified as a generative and conceptual method of making. This research contributes to ceramics as an expanded field of making by examining and presenting artefacts generated through a dialogue with sites that are chosen, are opportunistic or are imposed. Unexpected site-specific contexts compel and challenge the ceramic process. The resulting works expand the objective, cultural and historical field of ceramics.