Gravel Bead Drills
Place: Lejre, Skælskør, Sorø, DKType: Nomadic Sculpture
Date: 2021–Ongoing
Gravel Bead Drills pushes the frontiers of ceramic design and artistic expression. The artwork is made up of a chain of roughly 160 ceramic beads weighing around 250 kg that were created utilising the forceful and explosive process known as Powerdrill Pottery. Each bead is sculpted with precision and attention using a drill and tools like angle irons, spoons, or bent steel rods. The extreme rotational speed hollows and sculpts the clay with tremendous force, creating raw, mechanical marks that attest to the intense process.
The bead chain appears as an ancient artefact discovered in the sand ore forest floor, like a dinosaur spine or a prehistoric tool. At the same time, its form and context suggest ritual importance, linking humanity's search for the divine to a deeper spiritual resonance.
Gravel Bead Drills provokes thought on the link between the natural and the artificial. The explosive impressions on the beads represent the traces and fragments that influence our lives and experiences. Through the tension between the tactile quality of craftsmanship and the raw force of machinery, the work invites us to investigate both the physical and spiritual components of life.
Gravel Bead Drills provokes thought on the link between the natural and the artificial. The explosive impressions on the beads represent the traces and fragments that influence our lives and experiences. Through the tension between the tactile quality of craftsmanship and the raw force of machinery, the work invites us to investigate both the physical and spiritual components of life.
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