Maria Hammond

Material Blender, Mender

Where The Light Gets In uses ceramics made by local artists and the staff themselves. Breakage over the last 3 years has been low, but their serving plates and bowls are dear to them and hold a lot of personal value. Maria has used different processes such as weaving, and kintsugi (golden lacquer repair) to repair and embellish the broken ceramics, giving them a new life.

Maria has created a series of creative responses to breakage, responding to each individual broken item.

Pieces can be seen in use again at Where The Light Gets In and on their exhibition shelves.

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“Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack, a crack in everything

That’s how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen