IMPERFECT ORNAMENTATION
Material: Metal sheet
Technique: Metal working
Exhibitions: MFA Grad Show Two
Year: 2025
Status: Production upon request
Imperfect Ornamentation is a deeply personal project that began in 2024, born from a simple yet urgent need—to make with my own hands. It started as a material and emotional exploration, where error is no longer something to be hidden, but embraced as ornament, as expressive gesture, as an essential part of the object itself.
Through manual processes, I explore how imperfection—the marks of making, the accidents of material, the uncontrollable—can become traces of care and presence. This project asks: what if ornament is not an addition, but something that emerges from the process itself?
Imperfect Ornamentation resists the expectations of industrial perfection and invites us to look closely. To embrace the crooked, the uneven, the slightly off. To see ornament not as decoration, but as a record of time, of hands, of the piece’s story.
Each object is unique—not because it strives to be, but because its singularity is inevitable.