Blurry lines

2023 — Master’s project, Konstfack

A smoky grey glass head with closed, swollen eyes and a textile-imprinted surface on a matte black stand with frosted glass feet and a clear glass bar hung with black ribbons.

This is my master’s project from Konstfack, exploring the fine lines and shifting boundaries between craft, art, design, furniture and architecture.

Three of the sculptures side by side on a concrete floor before a grey backdrop: a peach glass form trailing pale ribbons on a rust-brown stand with amber glass feet, two clear glass forms held in a tall yellow ladder-like frame on legs sheathed in beige fabric, and a smoky grey glass head on a black stand hung with black straps.

A translucent peach glass form with quilted, puffed panels, belted with a pink ribbon that trails to the floor, on a tall brown wooden stand with glossy peach glass ball feet.

Close-up of a smoky grey glass head with closed, swollen eyes and a fine woven-textile imprint, darkening to black at its base, resting on a matte black stand and a clear glass bar.

The project, Blurry Lines, brings together a collection of objects that exist somewhere between furniture and sculpture. Rather than defining them within a single category, I wanted to explore what happens in the space between different disciplines, functions and materials.

The works combine wooden constructions with blown and cast glass, as well as textiles. The different materials have their own qualities, histories and ways of being shaped, yet come together to form objects that are both functional and sculptural.

Through Blurry Lines, I investigate how material, scale, form and function can challenge our understanding of what an object is and how we relate to it. The pieces invite both use and contemplation, moving between the familiar and the unexpected.

Material: Blown and cast glass, wood, textile

Exhibition view in streaming sunlight: glass forms on furniture-like stands in black, red, yellow and brown, two glass wall pieces, and a motion-blurred person walking past.

A rust-red chair-like stand with pink glass rods in its backrest, its legs sheathed in gathered pink mesh ending in glass cones, beside a lumpy pale pink glass form under the seat. — False hopes

Close-up beneath a rust-red seat: gathered pink mesh hanging from a clip ends in a ribbed pink glass cone, beside a pale pink glass form with a glossy neck and ruched, fur-like texture. — False hopes, detail

A translucent smoky grey-brown glass wall relief shaped like spread wings, with puffed, stitched-looking panels and two small holes, held to a white wall by metal clips.

A pale blue glass wall relief with puffed, petal-like panels above a ribbed, quilted lower section, fringed with a row of blue tassels, on a white wall in soft diagonal light.

A translucent pink glass wall relief shaped like a face with round, puffed eyes and quilted ridges, a dark red fringe hanging below, on a pale wall in dappled light.