Vessel Of Dreams

Traces : Imagined Histories In Paper, Thread and Clay

London Craft Week

Contemporary Applied Arts

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Vessel 

a craft for travelling on water 

a person regarded as a holder or receiver

 a hollow or concave utensil

Vessels hold imagery of wonder and intrigue within many cultures, conveying the promise of undiscovered realms and lands; dreams of hope, progress and freedom. Representing threads of the journey through life and spiritual voyages.

Through human history the vessel has held hope of sanctuary and safety, sometimes living up to these dreams and yet also falling short at great human cost, through shipwreck, exploitation or cruelty.

Within ceramics, the vessel at a fundamental level has sustained life by storing water and food, transporting goods and for cooking. It is an archetypal form of habit and ritual, both containing and bounded by space.