Companions are a gentle approach to the wild. Through archetypal forms and tactile encounters, they invite instinctive relationships with the living world, reminding us that beneath the layers of culture and civilisation, we still belong to nature.
The investigation explores how touch becomes a way of knowing. Through archetypal forms, tactility and embodied engagement, the works invite connections that emerge before language - through touch, recognition and presence. They are designed to be approached, held, worn and lived with, allowing relationships to develop gradually through repeated encounters.
Inspired by observations of wild animals, childhood experiences of nature and the adaptive intelligence of living systems, the collections question contemporary habits of comfort, convenience and separation. Furniture, Cubs, Rings and Seeds are different expressions of the same investigation: how materials can reconnect body, instinct and environment through everyday acts of touch and companionship.
TAME Furniture
Material ↔ Body
Exploring how tactile furniture awakens instinctive ways of inhabiting the environment through touch, movement and archetypal forms.
TAME Cubs
Material ↔ Instinct
Creating ceramic companions that invite touch, curiosity and instinctive relationships with the living world through archetypal animal forms.
Flokkk
Material ↔ Community
Exploring how observations of animal communities inspire new forms of gathering and interaction in public space.
