poet's vase

Sculpture | 3D printed

Poet's Vase is a sculpture designed extruding polygons in a 3D environment. It takes its name from the vase Auxilio Lacouture, the main character of Amulet, finds in the poet Pedro Garfia's studio while cleaning. Amulet was written by Roberto Bolaño in 1999.

Don Pedro Garfias would look at me and then look away, and his gaze (that sad gaze of his) would settle on something, I don't know, a vase, or a shelf full of books (that melancholy gaze of his), and I would think: What's so special about that vase or the spines of those books he's gazing at, why are they filling him with such sadness? And sometimes, when he had left the room or stopped looking at me, I began to wonder and even went to look at the vase in question or the aforementioned books and came to the conclusion (a conclusion which, I hasten to add, I promptly rejected) that Hell or one of its secret doors was hidden there in those seemingly inoffensive objects.

Poet's Vase was presented at the ITP Spring Show 2009 at the TISCH School of the Arts in NYU.

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