Recycled sterling silver and ceramic

Dimensions: 100mm x 25mm

Each spoon is a one off and will come numbered, carefully wrapped and accompanied by a small package containing images and information on the production and collaborative process.

Made as part of an ongoing collaboration between myself and my mother, Annie Powell. Following many conversations around the lack of of space for play and experimentation, elements that formed a pivotal role in my early experiences, living in a small caravan without water or electricity. We produced them during a period of precious time I spent staying with her on the Welsh border last year whilst trying to process some big life changes.

The handles, formed through the squeezing of clay in my mothers hands, maintain a very tactile and human quality as you hold them and they naturally rest against the shape of your hands. With subtle finger prints and folds still visible.

After being bisque fired, the ceramic was packed tightly into a tin with horse manure, before being heated to a very high temperature in an outside fire overnight.

A process I remember my mother experimenting with when me and my sister were children.

Paired with silver bowls in a soft satin finish, with its own markings and indentations left by the tool used to form them. Although they could be used, I feel they are better viewed as a soft object to hold and appreciate.

The collaboration felt like an important reminder to reintroduce aspects of my own past, not though sentimentality, but as a way of reconnecting with the idea of play.