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Uninvited Beauty, 2025

This project is about decay and layers of history. About time that drifts through the spaces between them.

It is an abstract reflection on the passage of time, and on how the appearance and function of material shift naturally, not through intention, but through slow change over time.

About the traces of memory that can live in the environment even when the material was once shaped by human hands, but now time continues to change it on its own.

It is beauty in a moment, but the moment is stretched across time, and the viewer is invited to witness a suspended absence of narrative.

A shell of something left behind: perhaps part of a housing or a fragment of a construction that was once preserved and then forgotten.

There is no story or drama here, but there is memory that does not demand attention, yet quietly holds it.

Porcelain, stains

Slab-building, hand-building

Uninvited Beauty Object I

H40 W6 D28 cm

Uninvited Beauty Objects II&III

H14 W15 D28 cm

H22 W12 D23 cm

Uninvited Beauty Object IV

H25 W8 D47 cm

©2025 Anastasiia Shmelkova

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