About the Work

STRANGE FRUIT is an assemblage developed through processes of preparation, glazing, and firing, where material transformation occurs through heat, delay, and loss of control. Glaze is treated as a volatile surface condition rather than finish - its outcome contingent on duration, saturation, and resistance within the kiln.

The work is organised through a restrained grid and concentric radiating lines that establish a governing structure without resolving hierarchy. Within this framework, repeated organic forms emerge as deposits rather than motifs. Their placement and density register accumulation and return, holding tension between containment and release.

Surface and form remain unresolved. The glazed elements retain traces of flow, thickening, and interruption, while the underlying structure maintains alignment without dominance. Contrast is produced materially - through density, opacity, and burn - rather than symbol or narrative.

STRANGE FRUIT sustains a condition in which transformation is partial and withheld. Meaning is neither extracted nor disclosed but remains embedded in repetition, surface instability, and the maintenance of an unresolved ground.

© Camilla Howalt