Coexistence Research
2021-2022
The project involved a lot of technological experimentation at
the edge of the possibilities and limitations of clay material. I worked with
crater glaze, a type of glaze that expands during firing and forms bubbles
inside and on the surface. For that purpose, I created an open structure out of
clay coils, resembling a sort of chaotic architectural structure or
scaffoldings for the glaze to grow on. The crater glaze fills the space between
the sticks in different ways. In some parts, it increases the thickness of the
clay coils, while in others it expands too much, with its fragile bubbles
joining together and filling most of the space, reshaping the object in a
rather unpredictable way. Therefore, I would like to go beyond the fully
controlled process.