From the looks of it, artist Livia Marin’s ceramic sculptures couldn’t stand the heat, but couldn’t get out of the kitchen either—thus, they were left to their great demise: to melt.
In ‘Nomad Patterns’, ceramic objects of teapots, bowls, cups and vases that are commonly perceived to be so-delicate-they’d-shatter, instead, appear to be swimming in puddles of what would make up their previous state of “perfection”.
But even in their semi-liquid state, they still retain their beautifully printed “Willow Pattern” motif—a faux Chinese pattern, created in 1790s by an Englishman, as a pastiche of Chinese landscape decoration.
An interesting take on vintage ceramics, her sculptures tread the fine line between ice cream and ceramic—and prove to show that there is beauty in the imperfect and broken… or molten.
She told This Is Colossal, the objects “appear as staged somehow indeterminately between something that is about to collapse or has just been restored; between things that have been invested with the attention of care but also have the appearance of a ruin.”
View more of her Nomad Patterns series below:
[via Livia Marin]