BOBACERAMICS / SET FOR TWO

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WHAT IS A RELATIONSHIP? We cannot define this question uniformly. There are many factors at play and the answers would be subjective. However, we only realize the need for a balanced relationship when the relationship is either problematic or we lose it. Yet relational bonds are given to us from the first breath we take after birth, when we see our mother. According to research, it is this relationship that has a long-lasting reach into our adult lives. From my artistic perspective, a relationship is a bond where two different parts become a whole. My emphasis is not on the diversity of the parts, but on the ability to make a connection and the effort to adapt. Relationships, duality, microscopic structures and fractals are my great inspiration. The Porcelain Set for Two is designed for compact dining for a couple. The goal is to connect and bring people closer together. The design with its "size" emphasizes intimacy and a moment spent with your partner face to face by the candle placed in the center. Each can have a different meal and still feel unity and wholeness. The service has an amorphous shape reminiscent of cell division. With its composition, the design evokes mirrored shapes on one side and the other. It symbolises the relationship, the duality of the masculine and feminine principle, yin-yang, day and night, plus and minus, conscious and subconscious. At the same time, it denies categorization with its emphasis on respecting gender differences, manifesting the equivalence and congruence necessary to form any relationship.