Throbbing Stillness යාත්‍රාව by Maru Meleniou is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award ලෝකඩ සම්මානය in ලලිත කලා සහ කලා ස්ථාපන නිර්මාණය Competition Category.
ලෝකඩලලිත කලා· 2022
Throbbing Stillness යාත්‍රාව
Client: Maru Meleniou Ceramic art &design lab
A' Design Award ලෝකඩ සම්මානය Winner in ලලිත කලා Category
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The Design
About Throbbing Stillness යාත්‍රාව
Throbbing Stillness යනු වියුක්ත අදහස්, සංකල්ප සහ පැවැත්ම පිළිබඳ ප්‍රශ්න ගවේෂණය කරන යාත්‍රා මාලාවක කොටසකි. Throbbing Stillness හි විරුද්ධාභාසය නම්, මල් බඳුනක අපේක්ෂිත ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වය වෙනුවට, එය නරඹන්නා සමඟ තවදුරටත් සන්නිවේදනය කළ හැකි අවකාශයක් පැවතීමයි. එහි කාබනික ස්වරූපය හරහා එය මාධ්‍යයේ දෘඩතාව ඉක්මවා යාමට සමත් වන අතර එය ජීව ශක්තියෙන් කම්පනය වන බව පෙනේ. එහි හැඩය සහ වර්ණය හිස් බව, විභවතාව, ප්‍රසාරණය වැනි සංකල්ප ඉස්මතු කරයි.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award ලෝකඩ සම්මානය
Throbbing Stillness යාත්‍රාව යනු A' Design Award ලෝකඩ සම්මානය දිනූ නිර්මාණයකි; නිර්මාණශීලිත්වය, දක්ෂතාව සහ තීක්ෂ්ණ බුද්ධියෙන් කැපී පෙනෙන විශිෂ්ට නිර්මාණ සඳහා පිරිනමන අතිශය ගෞරවනීය පිළිගැනීමකි. ලෝකඩ ජයග්‍රාහී නිර්මාණ ප්‍රමාණවත් ලෙස දක්ෂ සහ කැපී පෙනෙන ලෙස නිර්මාණශීලී කෘති වන අතර නිර්මාණකරුවන්ගේ පුළුල් අත්දැකීම්, පරිකල්පනය සහ සම්පත්දායකත්වය තහවුරු කරයි. Throbbing Stillness යාත්‍රාව ඉහළින් අගය කරන, ප්‍රශංසා කරන සහ ආදරය කරන දෙයක් වනු ඇතැයි අපේක්ෂා කෙරේ, කැපී පෙනෙන ලෙස වෘත්තීය සහ නවීන. Throbbing Stillness යාත්‍රාව අවශ්‍යතා විශිෂ්ට ලෙස සපුරයි, ආශාවන් ස්පර්ශ කරයි, හැඟීම් වශීකරණය කරයි සහ කුතුහලය අවදි කරයි.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
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
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