Ceramics Cu

Ceramics Cu is a collection of pieces created in ceramics, copper and silica with an innovative technique where, as a sort of alchemy, each piece is transformed into a new object in which colors and lines that ornate it emerges in an absolutely unique way through the firing process.

Basketry and ceramics are one of the world’s oldest handicrafts, there are vestiges of pieces of pottery of the Neolithic Age showing that the clay had been molded round a basket structure, that show the interrelation between those new crafts.

In this new project we wanted to return to those first experiments that mix different craft techniques.

As a way of a contemporary analogy, we applied a mesh fabric that will leave its mark on the ceramic when fired, marking the vases with mechanical drawings from the industrial process of the fabric production. In this way, abstract patterns are generated, that when applied to the ceramic and after the firing process, leave a pattern between chaos and order. In addition, silica turns ceramic impermeable while becoming deep green in contact with the copper.

At the special edition, the copper is applied using a circular weaving textile machine especially modified to be able to weave using variables of height, turn, speed, thickness of copper wire and type of knot.
In this way we achieved the serial production of unique pieces with a high degree of ornamentation, presenting the possibilities of drawing generated through mechanical instructions and electricity.

They are unique pieces, of unrepeatable character that seek the union between the industrial and the handmade, as well as the crossing between different disciplines.