Throbbing Stillness ' Ann An Soitheach by Maru Meleniou

Throbbing Stillness ' Ann An Soitheach by Maru Meleniou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Duais Umha A' Design Award in Ealain Fhìnealta agus Dealbhadh Stàladh Ealain Competition Category.

UmhaEalain Fhìnealta· 2022

Throbbing Stillness ' Ann An Soitheach

by Maru Meleniou

Client: Maru Meleniou Ceramic art &design lab

Duais Umha A' Design Award Winner in Ealain Fhìnealta Category

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The Design

About Throbbing Stillness ' Ann An Soitheach

Tha Throbbing Stillness mar phàirt de shreath shoithichean a’ sgrùdadh bheachdan eas-chruthach, bun-bheachdan agus ceistean bith-beò. Is e am paradocs de Throbbing Stillness, an àite a bhith ag obair le vase fhlùraichean, gu bheil e a’ ciallachadh gu bheil àite ann a tha comasach air barrachd conaltraidh a chumail leis an neach-coimhead. Tro a chruth organach bidh e a’ faighinn thairis air cruas a’ mheadhan agus tha e coltach gu bheil e a’ crith le lùth deatamach. Tha an cumadh agus an dath aige a’ soilleireachadh bun-bheachdan leithid falamhachd, comasachd, leudachadh.

The Recognition

About the Duais Umha A' Design Award

Tha Throbbing Stillness ' Ann An Soitheach air Duais Umha A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh gu math urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean sònraichte a tha air an comharrachadh le cruthachalachd, innleachd agus geurchuis. Tha buannaichean Umha nan obraichean gu math sgileil agus gu sònraichte cruthachail a dhearbhas eòlas farsaing, mac-meanmna agus tapachd an luchd-dealbhaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi Throbbing Stillness ' Ann An Soitheach na nì air a bheil mòran meas, ion-mholta agus gràdhach, a tha gu sònraichte proifeiseanta agus ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Umha A' Design Award a' cur nan cleachdaidhean as fheàrr ann an ealain, saidheans, dealbhadh agus teicneolas an gnìomh, agus tha e sàr-mhath airson an aire do mhion-fhiosrachadh. Bidh Throbbing Stillness ' Ann An Soitheach a' sàsachadh fheumalachdan gu h-iongantach, a' suathadh ri miannan, a' tàladh faireachdainnean agus a' togail fiosrachd.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Throbbing Stillness is not the vessel that flowers will be beautifully arranged in. Throbbing Stillness is a vessel that aims to contain abstract ideas, thoughts and images. A vessel that contemplates the concept of "vessility".
Dimensions & Packaging: Height 40cm
Tags: Sculptural vessel, Naked ceramics, Contemporary Ceramics, Handbuilt ceramics, Raw minimalism, Slow design
Production Technology: It is a hand-build ceramic vessel, with the coiling technique, an ancient technique that involves creating forms without a pottery wheel, using the hands, fingers, and simple tools. That way small details, differences imperfections and qualities mirror the honesty of the creative process. A slow almost meditative process that after years of practise creates a unique relationship between artist and medium.
I used stoneware clay and painted it with porcelain slip, glazed and fired at 1220C
Design Challenge: The most challenging part was to work on the piece as much as I would not manipulate clay to the point that it would lose its properties and its own life and substance. To create an object that carries the message powerfully. An object simple in form and yet not simplistic.
Research: I am interested in the materiality of my medium and I wish to highlight its raw nature and properties. After practising with a variety of colors and glazes I realised that all this would be a kind of cover up, making it hard for the medium to carry its message. So I decided to move forward with my material being almost naked.
Inspiration: My inspiration comes from the book White by Kenya Hara, Zen Buddhism and the human body.
In the field of ceramics, one creates forms to contain the emptiness. The purpose of a vessel is to hold nothingness within, a purpose greater than its function. White is delicate, fragile and from the moment of its birth it is destined to be “polluted”. My vessel is not trying to be a perfect white, rather it carries a layering, in an attempt to search for a way to feel whiteness.
A vessel, a human heart, a vital organ, or a musical instrument always inhaling/exhaling, pulsating in a space of closeness and familiarity yet distant and unknown. A space out of time, far from personal feelings and agendas that is dedicated to personal contemplation.
Project Duration: Throbbing Stillness was created in 2020 in Athens, and was exhibited in Milan Design Week 2021 at 1000Vases
Operation Flow: Human beings are designed to communicate.
We define ourselves through relationships and interactions with our environment, with others, with the objects that surrounds us.
Throbbing Stillness is a unique object that aims to offer a space for connection, an invitation to interact.
Image Credits: Image No1, No2, No3 No4 Nikos Koustenis
Image No5 Maru Meleniou