Artwork description: When the familiar meets change, it creates space for something new. Symbiont brings the principles of growth and coexistence from the living into the non-living, exploring how far a traditional technique can be taken.
Artwork description long: Symbiont grows out of an interest in a world that usually remains hidden from us. I am drawn to the microscopic world, its growth, transformation, and the way its forms interact, influence one another, and gradually create something new. I began looking for these principles in forms and started to see a familiar material from a slightly different perspective. Organic forms gradually settle into the glass and respond to its volume. I am interested in the moment when it is no longer entirely clear what belongs to the surface and what is part of the form itself. I let things develop gradually, leaving room for what emerges during the making rather than trying to control every step. I work with traditional lead-based paint and high-fired enamel, but I do not want to return them to their familiar form. Enamel, often associated with decorative motifs, takes on a looser, more organic character through drawings and layers. I am interested in what happens when a traditional technique meets a contemporary way of thinking. The reduced colour palette is complemented by UV-reactive paint, which brings out layers hidden from ordinary view. The four glass objects developed gradually, each in a slightly different way. An important part of the process was my collaboration with Ondřej Novotný and Novotny Glass, where my ideas met the possibilities of glass and the process itself. The work emerged somewhere between planning and chance, between what I put into the material and what it takes back.
Artwork description long: Symbiont grows out of an interest in a world that usually remains hidden from us. I am drawn to the microscopic world, its growth, transformation, and the way its forms interact, influence one another, and gradually create something new. I began looking for these principles in forms and started to see a familiar material from a slightly different perspective. Organic forms gradually settle into the glass and respond to its volume. I am interested in the moment when it is no longer entirely clear what belongs to the surface and what is part of the form itself. I let things develop gradually, leaving room for what emerges during the making rather than trying to control every step. I work with traditional lead-based paint and high-fired enamel, but I do not want to return them to their familiar form. Enamel, often associated with decorative motifs, takes on a looser, more organic character through drawings and layers. I am interested in what happens when a traditional technique meets a contemporary way of thinking. The reduced colour palette is complemented by UV-reactive paint, which brings out layers hidden from ordinary view. The four glass objects developed gradually, each in a slightly different way. An important part of the process was my collaboration with Ondřej Novotný and Novotny Glass, where my ideas met the possibilities of glass and the process itself. The work emerged somewhere between planning and chance, between what I put into the material and what it takes back.