“We would like to change people’s fixed ideas about clay as a material. It is one of the world’s oldest materials and deserves to be modernised and re-evaluated,” say ceramists Karen Kjældgård-Larsen and Tine Broksø, who established Claydies in 2000.
Grass’ is developed in several phases. The handmade vase consists of three pieces, a bottom, one or several tubes, and grass blades that are hand shaped until the right form is obtained. For Claydies, the process itself is an important part of the development, so that the language of form and expression is identical to the idea.
The last process in the production of ‘Grass’ is the firing. The first firing is made at 950ºC for approximately ten hours. The vases are then glazed with a specially made glaze, which gives the grass-green colour. The last firing is made at 1270ºC and after 15 hours in the kiln, ‘Grass’ is ready.
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