Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Product Design / Ceramics / Contemporary Craft
My location: Tel Aviv, Israel
First Name: Yeela
Last Name: Zada
University / College: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem
Course / Program: Industrial Design BDes
Graduates: 2024
Specialisms: Product Design / Ceramics / Contemporary Craft
My Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
The hide is a remarkable and intricate organ, a living layer that protects and encloses what is vital. When alive, it is flexible; when dead, it becomes dry and cold. This project explores a dialogue between leather and clay, two breathable and porous materials, through the method of wet molding on unsintered ceramicware. This process involves softening the leather by allowing it to "drink" water through the ceramic vessel’s walls, thus becoming flexible and malleable before it hardens in its new form. The leather stretches and adapts to the vessel, absorbing minerals that dye the areas in contact with the clay, resulting in a new shape. During the drying phase, the ceramic vessels absorb water and material particles from the leather, leaving their mark and creating patterns of movement on the vessel as well. This series of vessels investigates a language in which neither the ceramicware nor the leather dictates the form; instead, they create it together.