shape-shifting sun, water, minerals

exploring the scope of organic glazing by nature

liminal | littoral

worldmaking | in-between-ness of natural and artifactual |

timescaping |landscaping | matterscaping | climatescaping

circulair sustainable conceptual ceramics

fluidity of light & color – empirical research – artist-in-residency Clay Kichen Portugal, 2023

2024: learn ash-glazing with Ginkgo biloba ashes
2023: Raku with glazing by Ginkgo biloba powder
2023: Glazing by nature | organic glazing by time, sun, water, mosses, algae
2023: artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal | wood firing with local Pisolithus arrhizus, Dyeball fungus or Dead Man’s Foot
2022-ongoing: selected Cup with Soul – Plantscape | plantmade | botanic porcelain | biodigital eggshell porcelain | vulnerability | Earth …
2022 Cups with Soul | Raw Subscapes & Plantscapes | Dagzomen, artist-in-residency Park Studio de Orangerie, Amstelpark Amsterdam | Zone2Source
2020-ongoing: re-inventing Bone China Porcelain & Celadon | recycling Fossils and Artifacts | Cups with Souls
2021: artist-in-residency EKWC | The Hague Dunes Iron Age Porcelain and -glazing
2020: artist-in-residency EKWC | North Sea Mammoth Fossils Porcelain and -glazing

Ginkgo
… understood to be a living fossil

2023: first Raku test with Ginkgo biloba powder – inside porcelain cast of Plantscape V – made by imprints of living Ginkgo leaves in raw porcelain

inspiration: ocre color mining Luberon France (2022)

in search of the sublime substance of shadow… shape-shifting sun, water, minerals…
in-between-ness of time, matter, landscapes, climate…
still-life | still of time | beauty of transience, of impermanence …

nature’s generative and transformative powers 
the idea of liminal spaces, or third spaces, is defined as a kind of threshold, a stage for transitory and frontier events that give rise to new possibilities, instigate change and, more importantly, challenge the status quo

2023 research organic glazing, the scope of ‘glazing by nature’

time, sun, water, mosses, algae…

2023: organic glazing - glazing by nature, sun, water, mosses, algae
2023: organic glazing – glazing by nature, time, sun, water, mosses, algae
shape-shifting sun, water, minerals … Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal; photo Theo Mahieu, 2023
shape-shifting sun, water, minerals … Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal; photo Theo Mahieu, 2023
2023: organic glazing - glazing by nature, sun, water, mosses, algae, first test
2023: Plantscape I, outside cast plant made, botanic porcelain, biodigital egg shell porcelain
2020: Cup with Soul, porcelain with a rim of North Sea Mammoth Fossils glazing
2020: Cup with Soul, porcelain with a rim of North Sea Mammoth Fossils glazing, artist-in-residency EKWC

2023: Shape-shifting sun, water, minerals
artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal | Earthly Encounters with Fiona Fell, David Treub, Sue Davidson, Majka Tkacikova, Carolyn Ainsworth, Joanna Mortreux, Hansruedi Steiner.

2022-ongoing: Cup with Soul, plantmade | botanic porcelain | biodigital eggshell porcelain | vulnerability | Earth … see work in process: Emblematic | Zinnebeeldig

detail, inside Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, first glazing test after wood firing: sagger filled with local Pisolithus arrhizus, Dyeball fungus or Dead Man's Foot
detail, inside Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, first glazing test after wood firing: sagger filled with local Pisolithus arrhizus, Dyeball fungus or Dead Man’s Foot
Clay Kitchen Portugal
Clay Kitchen Portugal
Shape-shifting sun, water, minerals...
Shape-shifting sun, water, minerals…
shape-shifting sun, water, minerals … Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal; photo Theo Mahieu, 2023
shape-shifting sun, water, minerals … Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal; photo Theo Mahieu, 2023
shape-shifting sun, water, minerals … Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal; photo Theo Mahieu, 2023
shape-shifting sun, water, minerals … Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal; photo Theo Mahieu, 2023
shape-shifting sun, water, minerals … Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal; photo Theo Mahieu, 2023
shape-shifting sun, water, minerals … Cup with Soul , Plantscape IV, artist-in-residency Clay Kitchen Portugal; photo Theo Mahieu, 2023
detail, shadow of substance
detail, shadow of substance
fluidity of color
in-between-ness
in-between-ness
collected found & made footage
collected found & made footage

inspiration

Shape-shifting ocean, river, sediments..., Portugal 2023
Shape-shifting ocean, river, sediments…, Portugal 2023
shape-shifting water, trees, reflections... The Hague 2022
shape-shifting water, trees, reflections… The Hague 2022
shape-shifting rain river, echo, concrete... Dommel 2021
shape-shifting rain river, echo, concrete… Dommel 2021
shape-shifting sea, sands, sun... Spain 2019
shape-shifting sea, sands, sun… Spain 2019
Shape-shifting submerged springs, karst, trees...Croatia 2018
Shape-shifting submerged springs, karst, trees…Croatia 2018