29. April 2024 - 7. Juni 2024
How can we incorporate all the characteristics and advantages of aluminum/copper, ashes, and clay in one matter which are our interests? We discovered that each of our materials becomes an important actor when building an oven, where melting, burning, and transforming states resemble the main activities.
To create this mortar, ashes, clay, and water were needed. For additional insolation, copper wires were used to emphasize the properties of the mortar. It resembles a full circle moment, a functioning symbiosis, in which the decline of one-part results in a collapse of the whole. Besides our journey of building a furnace, the constant reuse of materials became an important factor, where forming ceramics out of the same clay that we used to build the furnace and collecting aluminum cans resembled another keyframe in our work.
How can we convey our discoveries regarding the dependence of our materials in our melting and burning products? The pottery as a collecting basin or as a perforated plate, allows the aluminum to respond and cooperate with the clay. This interaction and mutual adaption should represent the eternal dance between ashes, aluminum, and clay when building a furnace.
