Category: Interiority/Atmosphere
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Attentiveness ~ Timbre ~ Wayfaring A reading apparatus for sensate heuristic inquiry. Attentiveness here is not a looking towards something from outside. It is a becoming involved with what is already moving between bodies. The site is encountered through temperature, scale, texture, sound, light, weight, memory, architecture and atmosphere; clay through resistance, moisture, gravity, fracture,…
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Interiority/Atmosphere Indexical~Sensate~Bodies The hortus conclusus is revisited not as a model of enclosed harmony, but as a situated body through which the troubled relations of shelter, difference, alienation and atmospheric openness become available for further spatial inquiry. The important continuity is that the earlier material already understands place as something cultivated through sensory and material…
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Spatial components and relational volumes. The ceramic bodies in Russell Moreton’s Permeable Chambers establish a relationship between dominant architectural volumes and smaller modular spatial components. The larger, vertically oriented forms establish a substantial presence, while the smaller hollow units gather around their bases. Their relationship is neither simply hierarchical nor one of repetition. The smaller…
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Bodies gather differently in each image. Ceramic surfaces turn, separate, approach and withdraw. Apertures open towards other bodies and towards the spaces around them. Architectural intervals become active: sometimes holding a body apart, sometimes drawing bodies into proximity, sometimes making room for a body that is absent, remembered or imagined. The images therefore do not…
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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…
