2024
Vares Residency project
found clay, sand, construction debris, sawdust, human hair, hay, water from
the unnamed stream
mixed by feet and thrown by hands into wooden moulds gave 148 bricks
fired with wood in a clamp kiln built from themselves, stacked raw bricks,
fire lit beneath. raw brick kiln to fire the raw bricks, self supportive
transformative structure. a living, breathing earth and waste entity from
underneath our feet, a temporary structure no1.
fired bricks bound by earth mortar were used to build a working-table-altar
in one of the rooms of the Riia 5 building, old soviet jail in Valga, resulting in a structure no2.
each step informing the next, 148 bricks table made from what there already is.