Melting World X

A vessel establishes a boundary: an inside, an outside, a continuous skin. In Melting World X, that skin is made unstable. Self-developed special-effect glazes foam, separate and fracture across the ceramic body, each registering a different response to the same firing.

Seen closely, scale becomes uncertain. Bubbles resemble volcanic stone, white plates form a broken crust, and fine cracks spread like faults through the beige ground. The surface is not a finish applied to the object; it is where the work takes place.

Part of the ongoing Melting Worlds series, the piece treats collapse as an accumulation of different material times. Some areas swell while others retract or split. The firing has ended, but the object appears to remain in transformation.