2025

Nubes salis

Sculpture

Ceramics, salt and white clay powder

42 x 25 x 58 cm (w x d x h)

Nubes Salis is a conceptual ceramic sculpture developed within the context of the group exhibition Sometimes You Can’t Take the Sky With You, part of the Apprentice/Master program by Kunstpodium T.

Drawing on an interest in atmospheric phenomena, the work takes inspiration from the formation of clouds. In nature, water droplets condense around microscopic dust or salt particles suspended in the air. In this work, that process is inverted and the crystallisation occurs upon the ceramic cloud itself.

The sculpture contains saltwater that gradually seeps through the pores of the clay and along the cracks in its glaze, where it begins to crystallise. The saltwater also penetrates the dry clay powder beneath, producing a texture reminiscent of parched, cracked earth and forms a visual echo of the sculpture’s surface. Nubes Salis reflects the reciprocal relationship between cloud and soil, between the ephemeral and the grounded. As vapor condenses and salt solidifies, the cloud and the earth mirror one another. The sky shaping the soil, the soil grounding the sky.