The maker

About

Cristina Ciobanu, sculptural ceramics from Bucharest.

Cristina Ciobanu

Sculptural form, ancestral inspiration, improvisation.

I build by hand, one coil at a time. Each piece carries the state of mind I was in while making it, so none of them repeat.

I'm drawn to the moment where I could ruin a piece if I keep going, and I continue anyway. Past that point of control, fear disappears and the clay decides as much as I do. The forms come from ancient vessels and from improvisation, and I leave the process visible, the layers, the shifts, the imperfections.

Working from Bucharest. Every work is one of one.

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In the studio
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