digital ceramics, 2025

3D-printed and hand sculpted earthenware, mineral pigment, wax, twine.

Mug vase and Window jar, 2025. 3D printed and hand sculpted earthenware, wax and mineral pigment. 15 x 15 x 35 cm and 18 x 18 x 20 cm.

Ear urns, 2025. 3D printed and hand sculpted earthenware, wax and mineral pigment. 20 x 20 x 26 cm and 19 x 19 x 24 cm.

Wavy jars, 2025. 3D printed and hand-sculpted mixed clay, glaze, wax, mineral pigment, twine. 20 x 19 x 24 cm and 16 x 15 x 18 cm.

Fracture pots, 2025. 3D printed and hand-sculpted black clay, glaze. 16 x 17 x 23 cm and 20 x 20 x 26 cm.

Pocket Jar, 2025. 3D printed and hand-sculpted mixed clay, wax, mineral pigment, twine. 12 x 12 x 11 cm.

Standing jugs, 2025 - 2026. 3D printed and hand-sculpted red clay, glaze, wax. 22 x 20 x 38 cm each. (far right version in private collection)

Generations reinterprets a set of Danish Iron Age clay vessels (500 BC–400 AD) from Horsens Museum's collection as new ceramic sculptures. The ancient pots look plain at first, but they were used for everything from cooking to burial rituals. Many were found in excavations at sites like Hedegård, as well as in farmers' fields and construction sites around Horsens municipality. I'm not trying to recreate these historical pots. I’m interested in what new forms can come from treating historical designs as raw material for contemporary ones.

My process brings together four kinds of artifacts: historical (the museum pots), digital (3D models), machine (the clay 3D printer), and human (my own hand). The digital models come from two places: photogrammetry, which rebuilds a vessel as a 3D model from photographs of the original, and generative modeling tools that produce invented forms from written descriptions. The AI generated forms are a starting point for my design process, providing visual prompts that I can choose to incorporate or push back against depending on what I think the design of the object calls for.

The work resulted in a set of sculptural ceramics, each one made by taking a reconstructed or invented form and reworking it: adjusting proportions, combining elements from different pots, reworking a surface. The finished vessels carry traces of both the real and the invented, reading as ancient and futuristic at the same time. Working this way has helped me connect to the past, making craft history something I can participate in rather than just observe.

Special thanks to ceramicist Anna Andersen and Horsens Museum for their support and collaboration on this project.

Fetching artifacts from the archives. 

Photographing artifacts at the museum’s offices.

Iron Age clay jug fragment, from the collection at Horsens Museum. 

Iron Age clay flask, , from the collection at Horsens Museum.

Iron Age clay pots, from the collection at Horsens Museum.

Iron Age clay jug, from the collection at Horsens Museum.

Iron Age pot, excavated in Horsens, DK.

AI-generated 3D model, made using photographs of the pot.

Fracture pot; 3D-printed and hand sculpted earthenware. 20 x 20 x 26 cm.

Iron Age pot, excavated in Horsens, DK.

AI-generated 3D model of a “Danish Iron Age pot excavated in Horsens, Denmark.”

Window jar; 3D-printed and hand sculpted earthenware, wax. 18 x 18 x 20 cm.