Floramica
This is a series of imagined ceramics where flowers and clay dissolve into one another, forming objects that are both botanical and mineral at once. Some read clearly as blossoms or vessels, while others shift into hybrid forms—ornamental, abstract, and entirely synthetic. Floramica sits at the intersection of artifice and craft, where ceramic aesthetics are reimagined through digital means. These are not objects that exist in the physical world, yet they carry the same tactile charge.
Behind every image lies a hidden archive—the AI’s training data—where countless flowers and vessels are stored in fragments of memory. The prompt gathers and rearranges those fragments, firing them into a ceramic bloom or vessel that exists only once. Like clay pressed into a mould, those fragments are reshaped into something new, something never seen before. The process is not unlike working at a wheel or shaping clay by hand. Prompts serve as the raw material, malleable and uncertain, while the AI becomes the kiln where they are hardened into form. What emerges are not replications of ceramics or flowers, but a third thing: objects born in the heat between language and imagination. Made with artificial intelligence, they nonetheless hold the weight of something you could lift, turn, or press your finger against. Floramica is an exploration of the uncanny physicality of the synthetic image—a reminder that matter and metaphor can blur until they are indistinguishable.
The series draws on multiple traditions: the ornament of Victorian tiles, the stylisation of Art Nouveau, the restraint of modernist ceramic craft and the strange geometries of 3D-printing. Yet the guiding force is always the flower—fragile, ornamental, endlessly mutable. Petals become tessellations, blooms flatten into mandalas, blossoms collapse into bowls. Each work is a non-object, photographed without a camera: decorative yet functionless, tactile yet untouchable. Together they form a collection that hovers between the handmade and the impossible, paying homage to ceramic craft while remaining firmly in the realm of the synthetic.
