Ceramics: Art and Perception

Lale Demir Oransay’s Precise Ceramic Structures

Influenced by structures in nature that include the human spinal cord, fish bones, spider webs, these micro structures arise as large scale repetitive sculptures which are systematically organized by mathematical calculations.

The relationship between functionality and the forms of organisms in nature imitate human life and art. Ceramics artist Lale Demir Oransay, in her series of complex structural and geometric shapes, explores what can be found in a small particle of a molecular structure.

The forms the artist makes are influenced by such things as the human spinal

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