Porcelain Teapots & Candlesticks by Ömer Öner Ceramics
About my practice: I collect waste objects from the streets of London. These are discards of individual things or leftovers of bigger objects: door or bed knobs, scrap wood, glass, plastic, and metal furniture fragments. As a ceramic artist, I am inspired by the found objects and their creative potential in forming new bodies of work.
Throughout the making process, I recreate found objects’ function and material quality by repurposing and regenerating them in ceramics so that I can give a new positive value to the discarded items. In my point of view, I see found objects not as rubbish, but as sources of inspiration and new opportunities
In order to preserve found objects’ form, I use the slip casting technique which allows me to copy and multiply the found objects. I am fascinated by inserting my practice into clay’s historic imitation and reproduction quality to copy and multiply other materials.
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