A new way of coexistence
These Habitat Elements are functional sculptures to ‘live’ in or on. They are supposed to attract the human eye and function as attrative objects for biodiversity. The furniture piece promotes an integrated society where humans can watch, listen and learn from “nature” without disturbing the habitat of other species.
Different themes
The work gets a different characters, depending on the color and the chosen tree. One bench is blending in with nature in a brownish color. It has a glaze of sinter engobes with oxide pigments. Another one resembles an appetising glossy icing on the Cake of Biodiversity. This piece is made out of pink coloured clay, with a transparent glossy glaze. And when a copper saturation glaze is applied, the work get’s a metal feeling, reflecting the colours in the surrounding landscape.
In the landscape
Design process
To create these furniture pieces Mirte participated in the residency programme of Sundaymorning@ekwc, a centre-of-excellence for ceramics in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands. Here the shapes where hand build, and then reproduced by press in molds from plaster and wood.
