Lady and the T-shirt
Ceramics. 2021
47x43x45cm.
CONGRESS ROOM. Way of Being Ecocratic.
Ceramic 2024
200x113x105 cm
Large ceramic instrument of relation. Based on biodiversity awareness, focusing on the interrelationship and interdependence between humans and trees. It is an ergonomic device that invites visitors to sit inside. Built in one piece, it acts as an extension of the human body, resonating and amplifying the sensory experience of being with trees and their environment.
Inspired by the proposal for a new constitution in Chile, and following its rejection, this is a first step towards recognizing and acknowledging different ways of relating to ecocratic laws. Laws that consider trees as sentient beings with the same rights as human beings.
This ceramic work is built in one piece using clay rollers, a deeply rooted approach to working with clay in South Abya Yala (South America). Where sculptures are built structurally hollow as vessels. The same methodology that allowed me to achieve resonance within the piece.
In the upper part there is a large chamber that resonates with the sounds of the park such as birds, insects, and weather conditions such as wind and rain. Hidden inside the structure are handmade ceramic megaphones whose tubes appear at different heights so that visitors of different heights can sit and listen to the amplified sounds from the outside environment.
What motivates me most about presenting this work is to create an experience of connection and recognition with nature in a simple and strong way. It is about recognising the consciousness that inhabits each tree, which for me is an innate, amazing ability that comes from sensory experience rather than cognitive understanding.
This work was made during the artistic residency at the European Ceramic Work Center EKWC. Oisterwijk, the Netherlands.
Time lapse: Building up.
This work is currently located at the Belmonte Arboretum in Wageningen in the Netherlands. Part of the open-air exhibition HEKSENKRUID: Decolonize Botany curated by Mirjam Westen. Can be visit from June 1st to september 15th 2024.
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Connection Plates. On multirelational awareness
Installation ceramic and metal. 2023
Average measures 22x28x22 cm.
Photos number 2, 3, and 4 by Almicheal Fraay
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Installation ceramic. 2023
20x20x32cm.
Incubate
Porcelain and resin. 2021.
Serie of three.
The Enthusiasm.
Ceramic. 2019
114x121x55 cm
45x48x22 inch
Selected figure at Keramiek Triennale 2021, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn. 360º tour exhibition
Photo 1 and 2 by Tom Feenstra
Beauty Number One.
Porcelain, wood and metal. 2019
Portraits: Attempts of Total Lucidity
Ceramic and video. 2019
Portraits, is a selection of attempts made on sculpture. Different approaches on perceiving and capturing all perspectives at once.
1+1=3.
Timeless story written as a theatrical script.
My Impossibility to Make a Pre-Columbian
Figure and Show It as Art
Ceramic. 2019
44x30x34cm.
Missing Objects (exercises on emphaty)
Interactive installation, 2017
Ceramic, wood, rubber and sound devices.
Gerrit Rietveld Academy Ceramics Department students's project. Uncut event Stedelijk Museum and Kunst Rai, Amsterdam.
Photo: Tomek Dersu AaronWhitfield
Gap Junction 1.
Ceramic. 2017
65x53x38 cm.
This piece is part of Frans Hals Museum' private collection.
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Sync
Ceramic. 2017
90x38x128 cm.
Device that synchronizes the upper and lower forces. The features of the sculpture are healing for those who stand close by, providing peacefulness and a calm state of mind.
