The design is an experiment and exploration of the obvara technique.
It is a ceramic baking method where a vessel taken out of an oven is immersed in a fermented solution and then cooled down in clean water. Obvara was used by Baltic peoples (territories of present-day Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and partly Russia) in the 12th century, when the glazing method had not been known yet.
Searching in history and Baltic mythology, I arrived at the topic of urns.
This resulted in two completely different designs – an animal ash urn and a human ash urn. As a part of my degree piece, I built a so-called raku kiln which is necessary in the obvara process.
