Sculptures from the graduation project

These sculptures are part of my final work at the Craft Programme at HDK-Valand. During the project I was working in the company of my friends, letting my choices be guided by actual needs, deliberately entangling my craft practice - and objects - into everyday life. All of this experience is gathered in ︎︎︎ ︎︎︎ the book.

Sometimes it feels like the sculptures were the least important part of the project. Throughout the whole master programme at HDK-Valand I focused more on: figuring out how and why I make my craft, than what exactly is the finished piece. I wanted to show that craft doesn’t have to be art-centric; the value of the practice can be located somewhere else than in the outcome.

The sculptures from the graduation project are a bit special, then - because I was making them the way I please, stubbornly insisting on the openness and not knowing as the only forces that can bring about the kind of creation that I'm interested in. They are not planned; there is no inspiration for them; and they’re not supposed to speak of anything - and yet, working this way had led me to discover new techniques, as well as new meanings.

What these sculptures have in common, though, is that i made them with contact (the key word of the whole project) in mind. I worked with bisque firing and careful finish to produce warm and approachable, tactile, "holdable" objects.


︎︎︎ more about the project