A two-hour ceramic workshop that introduces participants to the kurinuki carving technique while engaging with ideas of objecthood, archives, and reverence. Through carving a solid block of clay, participants create a unique object/structure — a vessel for safekeeping fragments of their personal archives or an artefact of its own.
The workshop draws from the exhibition Omens. Organisms. Objects. Order. and treats making as an integral process. A form emerges through removal rather than construction, allowing each object to have its own journey.
The workshop aims to simulate an environment where the artist takes the participants through her own practice of visual art, where photographic documentation of material remnants informs her vision of sculptures incorporating diverse materials. The participants will go through the process from working with clay, cutting/excavating, moulding a tactile piece of earth, reflecting on the idea of treasure, objects and safekeeping, to finally have a hands on experience.
