Ola Lewczyk is a maker who’s practice focuses on craft, material research and locality. She works primarily with clay, beeswax and collected natural materials. She works and understands things through touch, being drawn to slow, repetitive processes. Influenced by slavic folklore and fluidity of things, she continuously moves between the grounding and the intangible.
Found clay, sand and urban wastes; construction debris, pavement dust, coffee grounds from a local cafe, hair from the hairdresser mixed by feet and thrown by hands into wooden moulds. Ola will experiment with brick-making, using urban materials in different ratios to test brick recipes. Part of the endeavor is building a kiln, from raw bricks to fire them and as a same time treating the kiln as a temporary architectural structure of its own. The project uses making bricks as a way to re-think local manufacturing and connection to our surroundings. It’s a research into ways of retaining craft based practices while thinking about the materials past and future.
Come and see what Ola is doing in Valga on April 27 and 28.
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