Work as Ritual
Over 21 days, I created a ceramic bowl each day, placing each one in a growing circle on the ground. When the circle was complete, the process was finished. This project was not about producing objects but about engaging in a process of making where material, body, and environment interacted in a continuous exchange.
As I shaped the clay, it resisted and yielded, requiring my full presence, adapting my movements and breath to its responsiveness. Each bowl carried the imprint of my hands, my shifting state of mind, and my evolving relationship with the material. At the same time, I observed how the bowls themselves became part of the changing spring landscape—exposed to shifting light, wind, rain, and the slow rhythms of decay. The weather shaped them as much as I had, creating an ongoing conversation between human intention and environmental transformation..
Throughout the process, I documented not just the physical changes in the bowls but also how my attitude toward making evolved—how repetition, presence, and impermanence shaped my perception and thought processes. In the final night, a heavy rain dissolved the bowls, returning them to the earth from where they had come, completing the cycle of emergence and dissolution.
This project was rooted in a broader inquiry into how production has historically shaped both individual and collective structures—daily rhythms, forms of labor, and a sense of belonging. As AI, automation, and post-work scenarios redefine the role of human labor, I approach making not as a necessity but as a resonant practice—one that cultivates attunement and engagement with the world, unfolding through rituals, reflection, and relational encounter.
Notes from a daily Journal:
Shaping without force.
Continous repetition brings about the shape, calibrates imbalance.
Make the clay to reorganize itself, only by soft impulses instead of waring off and forming with force.That way a stable structure emerges, that shapes itself as a whole. Always ongoing.
Reverse Archeology?
If archaeology reconstructs rituals through found objects,
I do the reverse—I create rituals through making objects.