Ceres – Incense Burners
2024
Collaboration with Pilo Marimon (Sweden)
A series of handmade stoneware incense burners — each stamped, each unique.
Approximate size: 12.5 × 20 cm.
Ceres blends the spiritual with the material.
The name echoes seres (beings) in Spanish, 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 shaped a collection formed by shared rhythms across space and time.
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The Collaboration
The process began with loose sketches, shared across time zones.
Daylight in Sweden, nightfall in New Zealand — a quiet pace emerged.
We’re from the same hometown, which brought a fluency to our conversations.
Each step became a soft exchange, refining form and feeling across continents.
Work in Progress
The forms started as digital drawings, expanded through AI-assisted 3D explorations.
Once they felt right, Pilo interpreted them in clay, translating flat lines into presence.
The series continues, and we’re 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.