Frø
seed (Danish)Frø means seed in Danish. A vertical garden made of fired clay, where water enters from above and the surface itself feeds what grows on it. The piece works through porosity, not machinery: capillary action distributes humidity, seeds germinate where the surface holds water, and the bowl below collects what's left.
Pour water
Water enters from the top opening and saturates the porous body of the disc.
Capillary distribution
The clay's porosity carries moisture across the entire surface, evenly.
Seeds grow
Seeds rest on the surface and germinate from the slow-released humidity.
Excess collects
What the clay doesn't absorb falls into the bowl below, ready to be reused.
Four pieces, two materials.
The disc holds the water. The bowl catches what falls. The aluminum hardware fixes the system to the wall and keeps the disc in place.
Disc
TerracottaBowl
Glazed ceramicWall mount
Cast aluminumCore
Cast aluminumMany failed pieces, three good ones.
First explorations of the disc geometry and proportion.
Scaled prototype to test the disc-bowl interface and the wall mount fit.
Three-piece plaster mold built around demolding constraints. The pour channel became the watering opening.
Cracked during drying. The wall thickness was uneven and the piece couldn't release the moisture symmetrically.
Fired at 700°C to keep the surface porous enough for capillary distribution.
Cast separately, surface-treated for direct water contact.
Frø was exhibited as part of a group show in 2025.