Remnants of Continuity

Remnants of Continuity is a modular ceramic sculpture composed of thirty-five slip-cast bricks arranged in an open horizontal configuration. The work brings together white earthenware, iron-rich soil from Kryvyi Rih, hand-painted patterns, and gold lustre within a structure that remains visually connected while allowing each element to retain its own presence.

Several bricks incorporate soil collected in Kryvyi Rih, embedding a direct material connection to place within the ceramic body. Their surfaces carry contemporary reinterpretations of visual forms associated with the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, whose material traditions developed across the territories of present-day Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania. These references are not treated as archaeological reconstruction, but as part of an evolving visual language through which cultural memory is translated into the present.

Gold lustre appears across several elements as a shifting reflective surface. Rather than functioning as decoration alone, it introduces light, value, and fragility into the composition, changing as the viewer moves around the work.

The sculpture does not form a sealed or permanent architectural unit. Its modular arrangement depends on spacing, rhythm, and relation, allowing stability to emerge through the proximity of separate parts. Each brick remains autonomous while contributing to a wider system.

Remnants of Continuity reflects on what persists through transformation: material traces, inherited forms, and structures of connection that survive without remaining unchanged. Continuity is presented not as an unbroken line, but as something carried through fragments, adaptation, and repeated acts of reconfiguration.