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Dimensions: 15 × 15 × 33 cm (W × L × H) 

Material: Black clay, blue glaze.

The sea urchin test, the hard shell that remains after the animal is gone, is one of the most geometrically precise objects in the natural world. Its pentaradial symmetry, the regular pattern of plates and tubercles covering its surface, the way each element relates to every other in a structure both rigid and intricate: it is the product of millions of years of refinement, and it shows.

The Sea Urchin series takes this geometry as a starting point. The algorithm generates the surface pattern computationally, working from the same underlying symmetry that structures the natural object, scaled, abstracted, and translated into a form that is neither shell nor vessel, but something between the two.

SW-0010 is the taller, narrower form in the series, a vertical interpretation of the same geometry that produces the flat SW-0001. At 33 cm tall, the piece presents the sea urchin pattern as a standing form rather than a flat surface. The vertical orientation gives it a presence that the flat form doesn't have, more sculptural, more assertive in a space.

The blue glaze responds to the surface geometry in a way that makes the pattern legible from a distance: the glaze catches light across the raised ridges and pools in the valleys, mapping the topography of the surface in colour. Against the black clay body, it reads as cool and precise.

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