Ceramic sculpture installation, 2025
Black porcelain, hand-built and high-fired (1240–1250°C)
Dimensions vary between 25 and 40 cm per piece
Presented at Drawing Center Diepenheim as part of the group exhibition Dauwpunt (June–September 2025)

Flesh of the Flower, Spine of the Seed is a floor-based installation of black porcelain sculptures that reclaims the flower as a symbol of feminine power—not sweetness, fragility, or submission, but wildness, eroticism, rage, and resistance.

These are not gentle blossoms.
They are organs of protest—creatures born from a refusal to accept the roles patriarchy has historically imposed on women: obedient, covered, virginal, grateful.
No.

The feminine is a force of nature—fertile, sensual, fierce.
It births. It defends. It remembers.

In this sculptural constellation, body, seed, mouth, and root converge in a landscape of mythic memory and sensual intelligence.
Each form is fertile, porous, blooming, guarded, fleshy, and alive—evoking ancestral fertility and the layered emotional landscapes that women carry: both fire and softness, strength and vulnerability.

Crafted from labor-intensive black porcelain and high-fired to near vitrification, the pieces stand as living artifacts of untamed beauty.
They are presented directly on the floor in dialogue with the surrounding works of other artists, forming an ecosystem of embodied resistance.

This work is both an offering and a refusal:
A blooming protest.
A wild reminder of everything the feminine still holds—and will not silence.