Graphic Design Comes in Handy:

We compose an announcement to post as an invitation sent out by .ekwc and to offer as an introduction to our work that evening along with all the details of setting up and finishing our project.

Yoko Inoue

“Water Gets No Enemy: A Wishing Well” I explore the hidden connotations of banal commoditized objects that construct the emotional layers of life, compassion and personal attachment.

At .ekwc, I created a series of work made by combining porcelain casts of commercial plastic water bottles purchased at local supermarkets and mass produced Buddha statues that I found in the exotic-souvenir shops and discount stores in Den Bosch. This work explores the amorphous border between commercial corruption and spiritual purity.

Unifying these two things through the casting process allows base and spiritual notions about them to compete and intertwine. Through the forces of globalization, everything is a commodity for sale, even water, which was once considered sacred and a common heritage. Nothing remains without price tags. Through this work I hope the viewer might regain a deeper understanding of water, its transcendent nature, as the essence of life itself.

I wonder how human consciousness is given shape by images.

Carol Koffel _ Sarah Willmer

“Ties that Bind Us” features the Hand, Mind and Heart of the makers. In an age of increased social isolation, globalization and explosion of digital technologies this installation transcends the perfection of machine made ubiquitous products.

Three to six bone china panels, 35mm x 60mm, are suspended from steel cables creating an architectural skin and interior divider. An “Outside Skin” with finger rhythm hammered surfaces becomes a plane to capture and telegraph lighting conditions. An offset parallel plane of “Inside Skin” drapes as if shifting winds ripple fabric that binds humans.

The translucent interior divider has a metaphysical presence and highlights the unique physical characteristics of ceramics; fluidity, translucency and tactility as an architectural skin.