Creative process

3D printed & wheel turned

E99 Ceramics explores the intersection of 3D printing’s formal freedom and the finesse, lightness, and precision of hand-thrown ceramics. This approach relies on a carefully developed process that controls the humidity of the pieces at various stages of fabrication, allowing them to be refined on the wheel. The objects undergo a cycle of meticulous drying and rehydration at precise moments before being smoothed, turned, and stripped of excess material.

The wheel process necessitates circular forms, a constraint embraced as a conceptual anchor. This ensures a balance between digital fabrication’s vast formal possibilities and a sense of material coherence, preventing the pursuit of form for form’s sake. Here, 3D printing serves as a tool for generating surfaces, skins, and textures that would be impossible to craft by hand. These textures, in turn, engage with specially developed glaze formulations and application techniques, producing nuanced interactions of color, transparency, and depth.