Details:

Dimensions: 23 × 23 × 11.5 cm (W × L × H) 

Material: Black clay, green 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-0001 in green glaze presents the same wide, flat form as the gold variant, the urchin geometry viewed from above, but in a glaze that references the sea itself. The green sits on the black clay body with an organic quality: deeper in the recesses of the pattern, lighter across the raised ridges. The result reads differently at different distances: from across the room, a clean contrast; up close, a surface full of variation.

At 23 × 23 × 11.5 cm, it works well as a centrepiece on a table or shelf, small enough to be intimate, detailed enough to reward close attention.

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