(Archive) Momentum

Momentum

In our industrial age, the handmade and the human imprint are important characteristics in the search for authenticity. The continuous advance of machinery is gradually eroding humanity's spheres of freedom, transforming each individual into a disheartened automaton.

Inefficiency can lead to unexpected, surprising and creative results, especially in craft processes where the manual process and individual skills of the creator play an important role.

Momentum explores the relationship between efficiency and creative freedom in the context of the art of craftsmanship. It aims to capture a moment in time and acknowledge the expertise and embodied knowledge that craftsmen possess in their relationship with specific materials.

Momentum is a collection of glass blown objects that have become knowledge artefacts of my embodied knowledge within the craft of glassblowing’s symbiotic interplay of ceramics and glass.