[PHOTOS] Beautiful Teapots Made To Look Like Vanilla Ice-Cream Under The Sun
When dropping a ceramic plate or cup we've all braced for the familiar sound of impact as the object explodes into a multitude of sharp fragments on the floor. This artist imagines a wholly different demise for ceramic bowls, cups and tea pots in this series of work titled Nomad Patterns.
By Sadho Ram — 08 Feb 2014, 07:46 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
In what looks like a fun play on Salvador Dali’s melting clocks, London-based Chilean artist Livia Marin has created interesting classic porcelain China pieces that seem to have melted and pooled on a hot summer day
In her series “Nomad Patterns” and “Broken Things”, Livia demonstrates traditional Chinese landscape decorations and motifs like willows, birds and pagodas elaborately painted on 'melting' crockery
The melting porcelain pieces are unsettling because what’s left of the pots, kettles and cups looks like the solid objects we’re used to, while the puddle of “melted” porcelain look like vanilla ice-cream that has been left out in the sun too long
Interested in the issues of brokenness and recuperation, Marin's contrived ceramics question the strength of the relationships we establish with the everyday material objects that we use so habitually.
Normally once something is broken, it either stops being used or is thrown away, but every so often a damaged object may linger if the owner feels particularly attached or sentimental.
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Inexplicably, each piece seems to melt onto a surface while strangely retaining its original printed pattern. The designs are actually a Willow Pattern motif, a pastiche of Chinese landscape decoration created by an English man in the 1790s “as if” it were Chinese
According to the artists’ website, she focuses her work around exploring “the nature of how we relate to material objects in an era dominated by mass-production, standardization and global circulation…"
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"The mode of address my work takes to the everyday is through the material objects which populate it and which I understand as embodied signifiers of the culture to which they belong.”
liviamarin.comBy appropriating mass-market objects Livia seeks to offer through her works a reflection on how we particularise our relation to these objects
Livia's work reflects on how, in a secular and materialist society, identities are increasingly designated through the material tokens derived from consumerism
