Luma - Stoneware Vase - Magdalena Clay
€180.00

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Details

 

Material: The body of the Stoneware Vase is recycled stoneware, dipped in Magdalena clay.

Approximate Dimensions:

height: 23cm
wide: 15cm

 

 

Story

 

During a residency that took the artist across Tuscany, Vienna, and Gdynia, silhouettes of early twentieth-century Viennese architecture were layered and merged into a single form using 3D modeling software, then cast in wild clay gathered across the residency sites. The same cultural thread runs through the work: a family history of migration and Vienna as a city of return and rootedness.

The process mirrors that of the lamp LUMA: the same shape, the same material logic, the same story held in clay. But this vase has an origin of its own. A 3D print came out far smaller than intended: wrong dimensions, realized too late. While waiting for the correct version to print, the small form was not set aside. A mold was made from it to practice the cuts, the seams, the decisions. What started as a workaround became a piece in its own right. From Lamp to Vase.

The Material:

This piece is dipped in a slip made from wild clay I foraged along the banks of the Magdalena River, near Barranquilla, the city where I grew up in Colombia. The Magdalena is one of South America’s great rivers, and its sediment carries millennia of geological memory. When fired, this clay transforms into something unexpected: a surface that is simultaneously matte and metallic, catching light in a way that feels more mineral than ceramic.

Rather than a conventional glaze, the Colombian clay acts as both decoration and story, a thin skin of my origins laid over the body of my daily studio practice.

The form itself is built from reclaimed stoneware, a blend of studio scraps and recycled clay that carries the history of my making practice within it. No two batches are ever quite the same, giving each piece a quietly individual character from the start.

Two geographies in one object: the river of my childhood and the clay scraps of my life in Vienna.

Each piece is a collaboration between the earth and my craft: wild, authentic, and utterly unique.

If you want to read more about the Magdalena River foraging experience, you can read my blog post here:

 

Care

 

  • It is recommended to wash this stoneware vase with a little bit of dish soap and warm water.
  • This item is watertight.

 

 

Disclaimer: Use for decoration purposes.