- Material Soul
- 2019
- Knotted ceramic and fique
With this premise and focused on the relationship between humans and their territories, I found that various local cultures had one thing in common: they view their land and the life that grows in it as members of their culture and everyday life. This allows them to know and respect the different cycles of their territories and live harmonically along them.
That served as an inspiration to propose a surface where the materials are the way to restore that bond between us and our territories. With knots and ceramics as the techniques and time as one of the essential ingredients, the clay and fique come to life in artisanal processes and talk through our hands, finding empathy and understanding in creation.
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The material is a reflection of us, throught it we can go back to seeing the territory as our home, we don’t govern them, and that’s how we can see ourselves in the soil, the rivers, the trees. That’s how we allow the land to expand and return to our daily life.
In craft this conection is essential, so this project places hand-made tissues and ceramic as the bond, that embraces the land as a caring home. The fibers and natural processes strenghten this conection, and is materialized with soil (ceramic) and plant (fique) colombian fibers brought together by the body in macramé knots.
1.Taylor Kibby, 2.David Estrada Larrañeta, 3.Tomás Piquero, 4.David Estrada Larrañeta, 5.Todd Hido, 6.Tomás Piquero, 7.Oropendola, 8.Tomás Piquero, 9.Taylor Kibby, 10.Tomás Piquero, 11.Personal archive: Wall paintings from the Acropolis of Mycenae, 12.Doug Johnston, 13.Personal archive: Güell’s mosaics, 14.Maud and Mabel