The series ‘Inflatables’ sets up inflatable objects as tools to shape unfired pots. At face value, the resulting works can be construed as a comment on utilitarian industrial polymeres strangling, breaking or otherwise invading classic ceramic form. Although such a reading is certainly valid, it is not the entire story. Alternatively, these works can be conceived as dealing with a cry of traumatised plastics to finally be accepted for what they are, freed from the harness of the commodity, searching for new types of expressing themselves. As it appears, in spite of everything, inflatable polymeres have most certainly maintained a sense of humor.

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The series 'Inflatables' are part of a broader series of works - or rather a method or a game - called 'Turning Things'. Following this method, daily-life experiences and everyday utilitarian mass-produced objects are mixed with clay on the potter's wheel, with a large variety of different outcomes.

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