Met material als uitgangspunt geeft vormgever Lara de Greef …... Waar ze voorheen veel met bamboe werkte, verruimd ze nu haar blik met keramiek in de geweldige werkruimte van het EKWC. Drie verschillende projecten zijn daar in de werkperiode ontwikkeld en gerealiseerd.
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Using material as a starting point, designer Lara de Greef brings forth new sensitivities within the spectrum of product design. Before she’s been working a lot with bamboo, at the EKWC she enlarged her reach through ceramics within the tremendous roam of the EKWC workspace. Three projects have been developed and realized.
Subjective maten
Gebruik makend van de vage typologie van maatlepels en maatverhoudigen zoals ‘een kopje’ en een ‘theelepel’ heeft Lara een speelse lijn maatlepels ontworpen. De lepels varieren in maat en in vorm en zijn daardoor allemaal weer anders.
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Subjective measures
Using the rigid typology of spoons and measures as vague and subjective as 'a cup' and 'a teaspoon', Lara designed a playful line of spoons. The spoons vary in form and size and thereby are, at basis, highly differing. By using the same clay as material for the line as well as by usage of a similar glaze in a specified and recognizable color line, the line becomes one. This highly communicative series explores our experience of a series as well as our usage of measures while cooking.
Scarification series
The skin of specific tribal people after scarification’s, after a rite de passage, explores notions of joy and sorrow, of beauty and pain. The sensitive sphere of this texture, when applied within the ceramic skin, could release similar sentiments. Lara created vases and embroiled small patterns on the surface to use this vase as the blueprint for the mould. Accordingly she poured plaster around this shape, creating a mould in the form of the vase. This plaster, of course, got completely stuck within texture of the embroiled patterns. Therefore, when the mould was taken of, many scarifications carved them through the skin of the mould, creating a hybrid scent of fragility and force, both positive as negative.
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