Azukre-koxkor is a collection of 13 pieces. As you can see, formally there are two types of pieces, some of which I call smooth and others striated or with protuberances. There are also several categories of pieces, some with a bottom, others are intermediate, hollow at the bottom, and others function as a crown piece or stopper.
Azukre-koxkor, in Basque, means sugar cube, but it is also a way of calling someone you love, a couple, a child. These pieces have something of all that mixture, since they are like a sugar cube, fragile at first sight, something that crumbles when it comes into contact with any liquid. However, when it dries, it petrifies, turning into something very hard, like a precious stone. A sugar cube is something humble and within reach, a mineral element that shines and is special in its own ordinariness.
These pieces are both one and the other.
In my work, I give a lot of importance to the process; these pieces are born and created, and it is after created that they are contextualized. They are very organic and intuitive pieces, and it is after I see them finished that I am able to read their framework. Above all, I would say that the pillars on which this work is based are: The disturbing (unheimlich), The bump and The protrusion and finally The playful.
This was my final project for the Master of Ceramics: Art and Function on 2024.