Peter Fulop Turf Ash Glaze Disc No. 1 — 3 High iron grogged clay, turf ash glaze, 2013
02 Makers’ Works CultureCraft
My teacher Professor Koie Ryoji taught me the difference between living on the land and living with the land. The symbolism of the container is both a primal and universal symbol. In ancient cultures, containers were created for ceremonial purposes and referenced the form of the human body. I have collected containers all my life and use them to store personal keepsakes from my childhood in Hungary, and small treasures that personify special experiences of my travels in India, China, Korea and Japan. The precious artefacts within my personal containers have the ability to transport me in time and place, to reflect on past memories. The containers created for this exhibition embody the very essence of the place in which I work and live. Hungarian by birth, I have utilized the processes of walking and physically integrating my surroundings into my work to absorb and express a deeper sensory understanding and intellectual connectedness to the Irish landscape. The expressive surface treatments of these exhibited containers are formulated from indigenous elements, extrapolated from rocks and minerals. It is my goal that these containers express a consciousness of the Irish landscape that has so heavily influenced the Irish cultural idioms of music and writing.