Craft
#ceramics
#cross-stitch
#embroidery
#pottery
#vessels
December 31, 2021
Anna Marks
Stockholm-based ceramicist Caroline Harrius (beforehand) embroiders vases with floral patterns that discover the relationships between gender and craft and ornament and goal. Distorting perceptions, the fragile items seem as if Harrius wrapped stitched fibers round a glazed vessel, or in a parallel method, sculpted cloth to imitate a curved kind.
Harrius punctures the shiny, semi-functional vases with holes after which pulls by means of threads to provide patterns and floral motifs that discover gender norms and hierarchies in craft historical past, particularly specializing in these sometimes related to ladies. Her works reevaluate creative methods as she takes each pottery and embroidery out of their conventional contexts, combines, after which reimagines them, stretching the boundary of every craft. This ends in surprising items that immediate viewers to query notion and textures (i.e. whether or not a ceramic might “really feel” comfortable and fibrous like cloth or whether or not a needle and thread are strong sufficient to puncture by means of clay.)
To view extra of Harrius’s stitched vessels, go to her web site and Instagram.
#ceramics
#cross-stitch
#embroidery
#pottery
#vessels
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