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Lost in Current
Life flows like a river. Often it carries us to foreign lands, washing us away from our native soil into a new, unfamiliar territory to which we gradually adapt until it becomes a new home. But who are we truly in this new land? We adjust to the conditions, culture, and environment like a stone worn smooth in a river’s current, yet inside, we still carry our original core. Or is even that gradually fading?
In addition to the themes of emigration and cultural abrasion, the author focuses on material research into “wild clay” from two deposits: 'ancestral soil' (the land of her family’s birth and origin) and 'new soil' (the land where she currently lives and which has become her home). The wild clay samples were collected from sites nearly 250 km apart, yet they remain connected by the flow of rivers: Litava – Krupinica – Ipeľ – Danube.
The author examines this wild clay as a foundational building block and also uses it as a glaze—a 'deposit' we carry from childhood or, conversely, one we gradually acquire through life in new environments. Ceramic forms, lost among the current of river stones, bear the imprints of the human body, the grip of a palm, and a human signature. Can you tell which one is original and which was brought here by the current?