Ceres – Incense Burners
2024
Collaboration with Pilo Marimon (Sweden)
A series of handmade stoneware incense burners, each stamped and unique.
Approximate size: 12.5 × 20 cm.
Ceres blends the spiritual with the material. The name plays on the Spanish word seres (beings), and nods to the dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter, mapping the distance between my studio in Aotearoa and Pilo’s in Sweden. Together, we created a collection shaped by shared rhythms across space and time.
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The Collaboration
Our process started with loose sketches, shared across time zones.
The difference in light, day in Sweden, night in New Zealand, set a natural pace for exchanging ideas. We come from the same hometown, and that cultural closeness added fluency to our conversations. Each step became a quiet back-and-forth, refining form and feeling across continents.
Work in Progress
The forms began as digital drawings, shaped and expanded through AI-assisted 3D exploration. Once the shapes felt right, Pilo interpreted them in clay, translating flat concepts into tangible presence.
We’re continuing the series and preparing it for release.
Photos by Pilo Marimon, Lund, 2024.
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Design Process
Starting point
'Forest Spirits' 2014
Image from Ai process
Photoshop edition
holy mountain references everywhere
Lia
Pilo's workday
Nuez, the guardian.