Claraval makes future artefacts from past events. The work begins with listening — to voices, to landscapes, to moments —  and understanding the underlying emotions and forces behind them. Sound is treated not as inspiration but as material. A recording becomes data; data becomes geometry; geometry becomes an object shaped in clay, glaze, and fire.

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Each piece carries the trace of a specific event: These moments are translated through a custom digital process, then slowed down by hand, mold, kiln. What emerges is not an illustration of sound, but its residue — a physical memory.

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Claraval’s objects hold tension, erosion, density. Their surfaces read like landscapes or fossils, marked by forces that once moved through air. 

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The idea of the artefact is central: something made after the fact, carrying evidence. Claraval pieces sit slightly out of time — formed from what has already happened, yet intended to last. They are vessels, but also records. Future artefacts, shaped patiently from past events.