Sculpted by hand from clay dug up in the Groninger countryside, these unfired funnel beakers recall the ancient forms of the Trechterbekercultuur - the Funnel Beaker Culture. Their surface carries hand-drawn motifs referencing 17th-century Delfts Blauw pottery, bridging millennia of ceramic language and symbolism.
This work investigates the lifecycles of materials, their origins, and their ends. The vessels remain unfired - raw and impermanent - to ask what it means to produce without permanence, from earth to form, from utility to decay. It is a research into non-toxic ceramic production, multispecies service-serving, and ancient, pre-industrial craft methods.
It is a quest to rethink how we use the earth’s materials - how we extract, transform, and discard them - while considering their roles beyond human utility. What forms emerge when we serve not just ourselves, but the ecosystems we inhabit?
Presented between archeological drinking ware excavations in Stichting Monument & Materiaal, Groningen
