instruments

ceramic object / sculpture / 1999

In the 1999 I found myself among the participants of international symposium in Boleslawiec. The unique old-fashioned brick factory became my workshop for one month. Lying off the beaten track, this magical place and its old industrial architecture transferred my thoughts to the beginning of age. The new place, discovering new properties of clay and the way of firing influenced my attitude towards material. Having unrestricted quantity of local clay at my disposal, I tore it To get the specific structure of the ground , so adequate to the scenery of surroundings with huge deposits of the clay exploited nearby. The process of construction - very dynamic and completely different than the one I was using in daily practice, reminded me of plying the unknown instrument which generated visual structures instead of sounds. The result of my „playing” was a series of objects entitled INSTRUMENTS.