Our dear friend Anke offers HANDFUL workshops where you can find inspiration and deceleration with the help of clay.
You lack inspiration to be able to work creatively?
We are constantly thinking about other things, we can't focus on the essentials, let alone engage with new ideas. We don't have the time or the peace and quiet to do so. Nevertheless, we are faced with the challenge of having to be creative every day. However, creativity does not come at the push of a button.
Anke Buchmann, our valued friend of 15 years, also generated new ideas every day in her previous career. It was fun, but she missed the physical creative component.
She went to London to study ceramic design at Central Saint Martins. She had had a very special relationship with clay since she was a child. She is now a successful and award-winning designer and we are proud to present a few of her beautiful ceramic objects such as vases, bowls and cups at the shoot of our new products.
Back in Berlin, Anke founded HANDFUL.
The idea of HANDFUL is to show a way to rediscover one's own creativity by slowing down and using one's own body. Clay is used as a medium to help with this.
“As a result of digitalization, we work with our own bodies less often on average, because our work is mainly focused on brain-based activities. Our bodies no longer play an essential role in the work process.”
Anke is convinced that this is one of the reasons why many people feel increasingly exhausted, stressed and uninspired.
HANDFUL's ceramics workshops and events are designed to help us
The handmade ceramic is the crowning glory.
Now is the perfect time to awaken our inner muse in the midst of the exhausting loneliness of the coronavirus home office, where we receive no creative impulses from the outside world.
If you want to get creative with clay on your own, our clay kits are perfect for you. Thanks to the air-drying clay, you don't need an oven to create beautiful objects that last. Find the right kit online in Handful's shop.
If you are interested in Anke's ceramic objects, you can find them on request from her.
Until next time,
Your ekomia team :-)
