Ceres - Incense Burners
2024–2025
Collaboration with Pilo Marimón (Sweden)
A series of hand-built stoneware incense burners, developed across distance between Auckland and Lund. Each piece is stamped, numbered, and unique. The name echoes seres (beings) in Spanish — and the dwarf planet used as a marker of distance rather than symbolism. The work exists as an object of use, becoming complete only through practice.
Form in development — not available.
The Collaboration
The project began through shared sketches and ongoing exchange across time zones.
Design and form were developed through dialogue, with the ceramic work interpreted and built by hand in Lund, Sweden.
Rather than standardisation, the process allowed variation to remain visible across the series.
The Series
CERES is an ongoing series. The forms evolve through each iteration — what's available now is one moment in a longer process of making. Other forms are in development and will not be for sale.
Photos by Pilo Marimón, Lund, 2024-2025.
Design Process
Starting point
'Forest Spirits' 2014
Image from Ai process
Photoshop edition
holy mountain references everywhere
Lia
Pilo's workday
Nuez, the guardian.
The Assemblage Point
Movement, perception, and presence.
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