series / collection · spatial work
path · time · seeds
year2005
placeBusintsi, Bulgaria
contextceramics symposium
formceramic sculptures, photography and collage
The project was created during a ceramics symposium in the village of Busintsi in 2005. It grew from direct observation of the place: weathered timber, rusted metal, plant forms, and the traces left by time. Photography and collage became a way of gathering these impressions before they passed into spatial form.
Path, Time and Seeds unfold as three states of passage: through the material memory of a place, through personal experience, and towards the possibility of renewal.
the place as a beginning
Time
The collage brings together an old door, a rusted handle, worn timber, fissures, dry plant stems, and the artist’s own presence. The material environment of Busintsi is not a background to the project, but part of its language.
Created during a period of personal recovery after a profound loss, the project places lived experience between trace and renewal, between what has passed and the possibility of continuing.
01
Path
An old metal pickaxe, found by the roadside near Busintsi, becomes both the structural and conceptual axis of the sculpture. It connects a ceramic stratum of earth with a multitude of hand-modelled forms accumulated upon the real, time-worn object. The title is at once literal and existential: a found trace becomes a carrier of movement, labour, memory, and passage.
02
Seeds
The seed-pod form was developed through a specially made plaster mould, while every element was formed and finished by hand in grogged ceramic clay. Repetition therefore preserves difference: the related but individual bodies rise from four separate earthen blocks, forming a spatial group that can be arranged through rhythm, proximity, and interval.
observation → photography → collage → spatial form