Original artwork description:

Collision 04. is made in a proprietary labour-intensive blending technique, mixing two stonewares of contrasting colours and textures. The resulting blend is then shaped to form a fabric-like movement, as if they were created by the collision with the spheres on top. The spheres are also made of clay and glazed with a metallic shiny glaze.

High-fired at 1250 degrees Celsius, 100% water resistant. Made by hand with high quality stoneware locally sourced around Barcelona. Ready to hang.
This series reflects on what happens when opposing forces come into contact. Whether physical, emotional, or conceptual, these collisions can be sudden or slow, violent or quiet. They mark a moment of change, one that reshapes everything around it. Sometimes the result is growth, sometimes rupture. Most often, it is hard to tell which is which.

The sculptures hold that sense of uncertainty. They capture a pause within movement, a state where transformation is underway but not yet complete. Fired into stillness, the forms remain suspended in tension. Surface qualities like matte and gloss, roughness and smoothness, coexist without resolution. Each contrast becomes a way of holding complexity rather than simplifying it.

I am drawn to these in-between states, where clear meaning gives way to ambiguity. The work resists conclusions and embraces the quiet discomfort of not knowing. In this ambiguity, I find space to reflect on how we change, and how those changes often happen just beneath the surface—visible only in retrospect.

Materials used:

Ceramic: Stoneware, Glazes

Tags:
#nature #texture #abstract landscape #tactile #low-relief 

Collision 03 (2025) Clay sculpture
by Maryia Virshych

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Collision 04. is made in a proprietary labour-intensive blending technique, mixing two stonewares of contrasting colours and textures. The resulting blend is then shaped to form a fabric-like movement, as if they were created by the collision with the spheres on top. The spheres are also made of clay and glazed with a metallic shiny glaze.

High-fired at 1250 degrees Celsius, 100% water resistant. Made by hand with high quality stoneware locally sourced around Barcelona. Ready to hang.
This series reflects on what happens when opposing forces come into contact. Whether physical, emotional, or conceptual, these collisions can be sudden or slow, violent or quiet. They mark a moment of change, one that reshapes everything around it. Sometimes the result is growth, sometimes rupture. Most often, it is hard to tell which is which.

The sculptures hold that sense of uncertainty. They capture a pause within movement, a state where transformation is underway but not yet complete. Fired into stillness, the forms remain suspended in tension. Surface qualities like matte and gloss, roughness and smoothness, coexist without resolution. Each contrast becomes a way of holding complexity rather than simplifying it.

I am drawn to these in-between states, where clear meaning gives way to ambiguity. The work resists conclusions and embraces the quiet discomfort of not knowing. In this ambiguity, I find space to reflect on how we change, and how those changes often happen just beneath the surface—visible only in retrospect.

Materials used:

Ceramic: Stoneware, Glazes

Tags:
#nature #texture #abstract landscape #tactile #low-relief 
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Maryia Virshych (b. 1989, Minsk, BY) received her Design Research MA from the Bau Design College in Barcelona, Spain (2016) and a BA in Architecture from Belarusian National Technical University... Read more

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