TEAPOTS & HUT

The project specifically seeks to explore how the essence of a traditional teahouse can be reinterpreted for modern society, while establishing connections to the community, soil and history of the Naardermeer area.

In the Netherlands, embroidery is famous as traditional hand work technique, which not many people are involved with these days. I made a new teapot combining these different techniques and drawing pattern of modern non-daily circumstances which is quite far from the “traditional”.

Japanese artist Haruka Matsuo dived into the soil of the IJssel and found the most beautiful clay. The starting point for IJssel Orbit, her project along the IJssel.

Haruka and Jacolijn know each other from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Haruka grew up in Japan, Jacolijn in the Netherlands and both have their own tea culture. The Dutch and Japanese tea cultures are very different, but some things seem universal.