Hindrance and drift

The challenge

Creativity is not something innate but acquired. It is, metaphorically, a muscle and like all muscles, it must be trained and exercised in order to make it stronger.

The project Hindrance and Drift is first and foremost a creativity exercise. The goal was to design 50 cups where the shape remained the same, but where the addition always had to be different. This addition had to be used as an anchor for a cordage also laid out differently each time.

Every goblets offers a different solution to the same problem. The stringing accompanies, hinders or adorns the cup; it depends on who is watching. This aspect of the project is very important because it testifies that a work is much more than what its creator believes it to be. It can take on a totally different meaning in the eyes of the receiver.

The materials

I mainly work with porcelain for the clay's whiteness. My choice fell on a yellow string, clearly visible, with a strong and current color. The aesthetic and conceptual contrasts between porcelain, an ancestral material, and bricklayer's rope, an industrial material, are at the heart of the project. I like to connect improbable materials that offer different discourses: the disposable and the durable, the noble and the common, the solid and the malleable. Each of the 50 goblets has its own identity and language, even if the materials and the basic shape are the same. Within each cup, the two materials are equally present and take on a function that is different, but as important as the other. There is a certain parallel to be made with the Human.