An afternoon at the kitchen table. I think many of my questions begin at kitchen tables. Not necessarily with a big question. Sometimes with coffee. With a calendar on the wall. With old family photographs. With things that have been standing in the same place for so long that, at some point, you forget to…
On heritage, a family emblem, and the making of Dandl-Studio Some things begin long before we give them a name. Dandl-Studio did not begin with a logo or with a clear idea of what the studio would eventually become. Its origins lie much further back — in my own family history. On my father’s mother’s…
Roots, labour, memory There are places that stay with you long after you have left them. For me, that place is the region around the Salza River in northern Styria. The forests, the steep mountains, the water, the traces of work — they were simply part of the landscape I grew up with. When I…
A study in family, place, and inherited symbols There are objects that make you curious about where they came from. For me, it was an old family chronicle: Die Chronik der Sippe Fröis, documenting the family from its origins in Bezau in the Bregenzerwald to Krippau near Großreifling between 1870 and 2012. At the centre…
Reconstruction · Form study · Contemporary functional ceramics Before a historical vessel can become a source of inspiration, it needs to be looked at closely. For this study, I worked with ceramic vessels from the La Tène period and created a series of reconstructions. The intention was not to reproduce historical pottery as accurately as…
Reconstructing a Lasinja Vessel Form study · Archaeological reconstruction · Contemporary ceramics Before a historical vessel can become a source of inspiration, it needs to be looked at closely. This study began with fragments of a large Lasinja-Kanzianberg vessel, dated to approximately 4300–3900 BC. The archaeological object survives only in fragments, with its original form…