Anna Lotte Peperkamp

Anna Lotte Peperkamp moulded a weathered tile removed from her parent’s roof, turning it into a decorative item with the traces of wind and rain accentuated by colourful glazes. The tiles are related to her job as a zinc worker, just like the other work she made at EKWC. Up on the roof, she occasionally comes across ceramic chimney pots, installed to increase draft and prevent rooks from nestling on the smoke channel. Lamenting the replacement of the ceramic pots by cheaper plastic or aluminium versions, Peperkamp focussed on the techniques to reproduce the pots. She tried to throw them but soon realised that plaster turning and moulding were more efficient. With their warm amber lead glazes and floral decorations, the chimney pots become ornaments that symbolise the pots history, craftmanship and the attention to detail people used to have, even towards objects that aren’t necessarily visible.