castello books

The material, porcelain, comes with its own history and analogies. Its silken texture and white, lustrous surface has represented the human skin ideal for centuries. It has long time been a nobility symbol and a sigil for hygiene. This classist perception is giving porcelain still a conservative connotation, which creates a wonderful playfield for its contrasting artistic implementations. The pieces I am making are my experiments to break this old mythopoesis of porcelain by trying other narrative possibilities this material offers.

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Collections

Raw Edge

Light Collection

Light

Technique

The technique is mainly about generating and capturing flows in everyday objects by using the mobility of liquid clay, which is porcelain. Porcelain can autonomously develop organic forms and waves having similar aesthetics like the sea. The challange is to let this little objects mimic the ocean in the way it triggers instinctual and emotional responses in people. These are thin, light to handle vessels, but yet strong, impelling to touch. You may stumble upon playful nuances and disentangle meanings in them. For practical reasons the vessels are covered with a transparent glaze on the inside, the outer surface is unglazed not to cover the wild pattern in the clay and to keep the raw touch of the naked texture. When hitted gently, they make nice tones and sonics.