Gallery

At the Spring Equinox, when day and night stand perfectly in balance, ancient civilizations marked a threshold in time – an astronomical moment used to align calendars, guide planting cycles and orient sacred architecture. It was a turning point not only of light, but of attention: a recalibration between earth and sky, matter and intention.

In this same spirit we lit the kiln fire to call for Spring – not merely to end winter, but to thaw the deeper layers beneath the land, where stories long held in stillness begin to move again. The wood we burned carried away memory: beams of an old house, dense with time, transformed through flame into heat, ash and atmosphere. As the fire grew we called upon Škrati, Bele Žene, Velikani (Elves, White Fairies, Giants) and all keepers of place – human and more-than-human – to awaken and witness the making.

The gallery holds the traces of that firing: ceramics shaped from local clay bodies, glazed with wood ash, gathered from surrounding trees, alongside shino surfaces that echo the volatility of flame. Variations in texture, tone and melt speak to the dynamic kiln environment – where ash settled unpredictably, where reduction and oxidation shifted gradients and where each piece became a record of fire’s path. These works are both material and mnemonic – objects that carry the thermodynamics of their making and the quiet invocation of a moment when balance, transformation and imagination met.

To purchase any of them write us to: shop@anjaslapnicar.com.