Fish Bowl

Anima Roos

Pots and dishes are familiar daily objects. By placing them in a new context, by stripping them from their functionality and by adding alien elements (in texture, color as well as form), a dualistic feeling arises within the spectator: recognition – alienation.
By changing the evidence of the form, the spectator can give a new interpretation, by using the associations, which the object evokes. (From nature, other cultures, memories…).
The Koï in China is a symbol for luck. Sometimes you see it, sometimes you don’t.
The interaction between what I mend to make, and what others see in it, is seldom a contradiction, usually an enrichment.
I like the endlessness of the curve. This combined with the narrow foot makes the object move away from functionality and it acquire something sacred.
During the making, the game between light and shadow, movement and rest, open-/closeness, is very important. Playing with traditional forms and actual techniques, I am searching for a balance. The spectator adds a concrete story to it.
Lines, forms and ideas, preferably in movement… it all remains a tightrope walk.

Size: 7.1" H× 7.1" W 
Size: 6.7" H × 6.3" W
Material: Bowls made on the wheel. Burned in a gas kiln at 1260°C. Relief decoration and fish made with a transfer with onglaze.