APPROACH
As a material, ceramic has multiple functions. In the process of creating my
work, I am constantly searching for new methods and techniques for transferring
clay, so I can use the same medium to achieve different effects to substitute
different materials such as plastic, polyester or epoxy. I combine clay with hair,
fibre, cotton, textile, bandages or other used materials to repurpose them and
recycle them in my sculptures. With this approach, I get a wide variety of diverse
surfaces, textures and forms. In my works, I make the outer shape by combining
different types of dried ceramic powder, which I incorporate onto the shapes
surface, in order to achieve the cracking effect, sometimes I amplify it with
the use of heat. The outer shape protects the fragile inner structure from falling
apart. The cores of my sculptures are made from thin ceramic fibres, different
strings, sometimes bandages, or enforced with recycled ceramic pieces. The multitude
of them makes the core stable and monumental. The inner structure is comparable
to a spider web, where every fibre is playing its role to achieve unity and come
out of the more significant shape.
