Livia marin biography of william

Interview to the artist by Rachelle Gryn Brettler, from our Anniversary Book

My work is process based.

Livia marin biography of william

The process of making the work also informs what I want to make. Every time I start a project, it has been a curiosity I have felt with a material, I want to explore the material. 

Everyday objects are very important in my work and an object can be the start of a project. The Broken Things project began with the notion of how we relate to things that break, whether we restore or throw away.

And following that thread I arrived at ceramics – something that can last centuries and is also very fragile. It is a series - one characteristic of my work is that I create the same but slightly different - looking for the difference within repetition. I always tried to read the object - so I would not do to a soft toy what I do to a ceramic cup for example, and I take into consideration the story, the history of the object.

Growing up in Chile, in my mo