What goes around, comes around
This work was inspired by both a journey through Germany towards the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in France and the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, which I read whilst traveling through some of the most beautiful landscapes in Central Europe.
The truly affecting story of a single soldier contradicts my experience during my travels. There were monuments honoring the fallen soldiers who had diet for their people and fatherland in nearly every town I travelled to. Most of the soldiers lost their lives in a gruesome way. The vessel as an everyday object cites the language of war memorials. Socially honored soldiers, worshipped by countless monuments, shall get a monument where they really are missing, where the honorable death is turned into a bitter los: the living room of the bereaved.
Rough Cup
The Rough Cup is the result of a very fast and rude design process. I shaped the prototype from clay with a rough rasp in less then five minutes. Maybe an untypical way for the fine porcelain.
breaking head
Metal and porcelain are two materials that behave very differently during the firing process. Metal expands under the effect of heat. Porcelain shrinks by around 15 percent during firing. I have used these contrasting behaviors to illustrate the problem of outdated beliefs. Formerly functioning beliefs that are no longer helpful under changed conditions, but rather harm people.
porcelain bones
For the "porcelain bones" project, an area defined by a boundary curve was divided into cells using a Voronoi diagram. The focus is on lightweight design and material savings. Similar principles can be found in nature, such as in the cellular structures of tissues, the leaf veins of plants, or the hexagonal honeycombs of bees. In these cases, the space is efficiently partitioned to optimize the use of resources. A 3D-printer printed the data in porcelain, thus replicating a complex natural structure inspired by the mathematics of the Voronoi diagram.
The code was developed in collaboration with Bela Steiner. I had the pleasure of supervising his research project, which was carried out at Ostfalia University as part of the 'Materials and Technical Design' degree program.
