Memory fragments in Protoforms

Protoforms are arts pieces, essential oils recipient designed for fun.

Each shape is invented and born from a blurred memory, a visual impression, a gesture glimpsed somewhere, perhaps in an Indian market, where a man sits on the ground weighing pigments as one might weigh light.

From ochre walls in Varanasi, moss-covered pillars in Angkor, hands painting without models, guided only by the memory of the form they seek.

None of this is represented, it’s been all absorbed, digested, transformed.

Each object has been shaped at home, hand painted and sometimes varnished. Some remain raw. Others are adorned with colours, as if a place’s memory had lingered longer on their surface.