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c.a.f.a atelier 央艺

A Hundred Bricks

Index
005
Status
Completed
Year
2021
Discipline
Ceramics
Architecture

All the clay was dug within a hundred metres of the kiln, and every brick is marked with the spot it came out of. The wall built from them is therefore a map: its darkest stretch came from beside the ditch, its palest from thirty centimetres under the road.

Design
Shen Chi
Firing
Gao Yuan
Mentor
Gao Yuan
The finished wall, running dark to pale across its face.
The plan of digging points, numbered to a hundred.
Green bricks laid out by the point they came from.
The darkest and the palest brick from a single firing.
The digging-point number on the back of a brick.
The digging point beside the ditch, after backfilling.
The wall’s surface under raking light.