This high-temperature ceramic vessel is conceived as a symbolic device of containment and gestation. Its organic morphology evokes primordial cavities—interior spaces understood not as emptiness, but as active potential, a site where form and meaning remain in a latent state. Entirely hand-built, the piece reveals a direct relationship between body, material, and time. In the practice of Sabino Guisu, ceramics operate as a eld of material knowledge, where the manual gesture resists technical replication and instead arms a sensitive, ritualized process of making. Each formal irregularity preserves the memory of human contact and material resistance. The cobalt blue glaze, red at high temperatures, achieves a dark, dense tonality as a result of the re’s direct action. Rather than functioning as ornament, the glaze becomes a physical record of irreversible transformation: re intervenes as a determining agent, altering the surface and consolidating the nal identity of the object. The work engages a contemporary reection on ritual and utilitarian objects, displacing function toward the symbolic realm. Rather than merely containing, it safeguards; rather than representing, it activates an idea of origin and creation in process, positioning itself at the threshold between the archaic and the contemporary.
