Category: Interiority/Atmosphere
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Panspermia begins with a body that cannot quite contain what passes through it. Cyanotype, botanical trace, hand-drawn line and celestial mapping gather upon the same fragile surface, each carrying a different temporality. The body becomes a host rather than a boundary: something is deposited, something seeps, something remains, something exceeds. Read through the present practice,…
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Hans Coper and the Egyptian Vessel/Wallace Stevens ‘Anecdote of the Jar’. Studio As A Becoming Apparatus~Threshold THRESHOLD / 2026This text has become less an argument than a gathering. Earlier and present bodies of research enter one another without resolving their differences. Coper remains Coper; the vessel remains a vessel; innerness remains an earlier proposition. Yet…
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Hans Coper : The Shape of Time/Working Notes/Diagrams Sainsbury Centre UEA Norwich Hans Coper : Working Notes Crafts Study Centre. 2014. Extracts from catalogue “The Esssential Potness, Hans Coper and Lucie Rie 2014” “I become part of the process, I am learning to operate a sensitive instrument which may be resonant to my experience of…
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A Vessel Defines Emptiness As Presence : Craft, Studio Practice /Theory and Analysis on Hans Coper, Edmund De Waal, Martin Heidegger STUDIO PRACTICE, THEORY AND ANALYSIS. MA SCHOOL OF CRAFTS AND DESIGN. Working Notes : Brockwood Granary 2014 Theory and Analysis Documents, UCA Farnham Working Contexts/Title : Spatial/Making analogies/relationscapes “Innerness” in Ceramics/Architecture and Philosophy/Painting BUILDing…
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A humble, passive, somewhat absurd object, yet potent, mysterious, sensuous : Hans Coper Hans Coper, Theory and Object Analysis, Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. MA Interior Design A vessel (as membrane/threshold that can hold social rituals/traditions and memories) seems to occupy space but simultaneously be occupied by space. Theories of relativity and uncertainty have shown that…
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Re-Interpreting the palimpsest of place through the humanities. anarchival cluster: Hortus Conclusus → interiority → sanctuary → sensory experience → spatial identity → hospitality → gathering → current ceramic chambers Researched for ‘Reading Rooms’ Waverley Abbey site, MA Interiors, UCA Farnham 2013-15 Inside every person (however serious or playful) lies an “enclosed garden” Forming relationships…
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Composite assemblages developed around spaces, interiority and aesthetics. The refuge is not simply an enclosure. It is a material threshold between exposure and protection, where the body encounters the weight, resistance and permeability of its surroundings. Year2024 MediumCeramic, Lead, Wood. Size190mmL x 230mmH x 80mmW 220mmL x 230mmH x 100mmW Category Interiority / Atmosphere This…
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Hans Coper : Pots that are ‘Worlding’ in that that they situate a certain fidelity, a willingness to survive and endure. Hans Coper : Potter, “the experience of existence” CRAFTS STUDY CENTRE. FARNHAM, SURREY. UK RUSSELL MORETON 2014. “I become part of the process, I am learning to operate a sensitive instrument which may be…
Russell Moreton : Matter(s) in Correspondence 