Endless Lines
Simone Crestani x Hazal Kurtulus
There are lines that run without meeting and others that cross. At the point of contact, curvilinear creations take shape, interweaving life and its natural manifestations. The objects made with Hazal Kurtulus are born from a flight of lines, escaped from sheets to become three-dimensional. The passage is through wood, which lends itself to channeling the movement and keeping it in circulation between the solids and voids of the excavation. Hazal empties the solids. Lifting adds grace and lightness. It records the lines present in nature in objects that transport and transform the energy of materials. Glass, through fire, accompanies fusion. The clean lines flow through the veins of the wood and through the magma in which they solidify the transparent and sinuous forms of the pots.
Ayous is wood obtained from a plant known as obeche. The giant trees can reach 50 meters in height. They grow in the tropical forests of central and western Africa; they have strong roots and are almost free of branches for the first 30 meters of the trunk, hence the absence of knots. Obeche wood is resistant to heat and humidity; it has a tender essence and an extraordinary lightness. Nothing of the Hazal removal is lost, not even the wood dust: every residue finds new uses.
The unique pieces presented are the beginning of a journey that began in Tokyo on a train. The electric cables and telephone lines followed the trajectories of the rail, intersecting the horizons, mine and that of Hazal, of the sea and the sky, for a collaboration that hybridizes experiences and pasts, visions and artistic perspectives, aimed at the mixture that leads to the essence of beauty: simplicity.
