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
