![]() The artisan aims to capture the delicate moment, the quasi-invisible line, when abundance turns to decay. It is rooted in the style of a classic didone, excluding the typical serifs and ball terminals as well as being designed with a cleaner, more reductionist appearance. Vanitas is an elegant high contrast contemporary sans. ![]() Tamsin draws her inspiration from 17th-century Dutch vanitas still-life paintings, as well as the tragic imagery conveyed in Charles Dickens’s Satis House. See the font license on the My Fonts website for more information. This piece is part of a collection of slip cast porcelain vases, "Vanitas Vanitatum: A Garniture of Beauty and Decay", that explores the transience of beauty and the vulnerabilities caused by excess. Depending on the amount of deterioration, parts of the vessel may start to peel, distort and collapse during the final kiln firing, giving the delicate feeling of being "on the turn": held just at the point of decay. ![]() The pattern forms the beaker's structure, with the other areas appearing to be eroded. Through this method, the decoration becomes integral to the body of the vessel, rather than just being applied to the surface. Vanitas V Parian porcelain beaker was slip cast, bisque fired and then painted on by hand with a resist. An industrial sandblaster was then used as an etching tool to eat away at the ceramic before the final firing.
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