︎I’m Charlotte
A Designer, Materialising the tactile texture of stories.
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Index
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We Rise
1:25
Murmuration
Escape
BREAKABLE? Grosvenor Park Theatre
Get Lost!
ARUP live brief
Peeping On Tom
Get Lost! Show
Zoetrope
Staring Or Stalking
Mapping My Room
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Information
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BREAKABLE ?
2020
Glass Chinese Snuff Bottles - produced during the Qing Dynasty were used to contain tobacco. During this period an expensive substance so a habit reserved for the imperial family and upper social class. Their elaborate designs held great cultural meaning, but it was the tension the material created that got my attention. As not only was it an extensive artisan process to develop these bottles, but also once made they were very fragile - the Beijing winter dropped to such temperatures that would cause the bottles to spontaneously shatter. I wanted to materially explore the tension between the contrast of substances in such close proximity. The potentially harming tobacco held in a fragile vessel.
Glass Chinese Snuff Bottles - produced during the Qing Dynasty were used to contain tobacco. During this period an expensive substance so a habit reserved for the imperial family and upper social class. Their elaborate designs held great cultural meaning, but it was the tension the material created that got my attention. As not only was it an extensive artisan process to develop these bottles, but also once made they were very fragile - the Beijing winter dropped to such temperatures that would cause the bottles to spontaneously shatter. I wanted to materially explore the tension between the contrast of substances in such close proximity. The potentially harming tobacco held in a fragile vessel.
