On Function

Mortars, pestles, vessels, and jewellery return stone to domestic proximity. Function anchors abstraction. Objects meant to be handled, used, or worn extend material presence beyond the gallery context. The aim is not monumentality alone, but integration — allowing geological time to inhabit daily life.

The attraction to tools precedes ornament. Early human implements — shaped for cutting, grinding, carrying, building — hold a clarity of purpose that continues to resonate. Across cultures and epochs, from the Stone and Bronze Ages through to the refinement of Renaissance craft, utility and beauty were not separate pursuits.

This lineage of making remains compelling. Adzes, carving tools, and foundational implements appear across ancestral traditions — Nordic and Māori alike — linking survival, material knowledge, and skilled handwork. The work draws from this shared inheritance of tool-making without replicating it directly, allowing functional objects to carry both practicality and presence.

Nature remains the primary reference. Forms are informed by erosion, tension, curvature, and structural necessity rather than decoration. A tool may be beautiful, but its beauty emerges from proportion, balance, and use.

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