First Collection - July - Oct ' 2020 - Berlin
Feral Bodies
Feral bodies is an original collection of experiments done around traditional vases. Attempting to create outlandish objects, the vessels were created in irregular shapes with exaggerated textures and unusual handles.
The starting point for this body of work was to revive my own muscle memories of hand-building with clay. Using the coiling technique after 15 years of my initial exposure to the medium, I wanted to build forms around a central cavity, making vessel’s functionality secondary to its purpose. Thus, creating forms considered unusual and outside the expectations for a traditional hand-built vase.
All works were build at Ceramic Kingdom, an art school & shared workspace dedicated to the advancement of Ceramic Art in Berlin. A big Thank you to Madeline Stillwell.
Every vessel conveys a new inspiration, a new technical understanding in building with clay. There were no confinements set to direct this project of experimentations, the vessels combine the vitality of human movement and aspects of the natural environment and in that seeming randomness, the appearance of some order.
You can find some vessels that are further reduced to just an essence, like that of a leap of a rabbit or the chaos inside the cavities of sea side cliffs.
Ceramic as a medium is very malleable. Visually it can convey stillness and movement, and immortalise them both. The raw texture, the fluctuating volumes and the unglazed surfaces produce further sensations upon touch.
These vessels, I understand were an attempt to bring something unconventional, something feral inside one’s living space.
