400g (31)

400g (31) is part of Hennie Meyer's prolific 400g series. His career-long commitment to experimentation gives rise to this body of work adept to shape-shifting. In warm earthenware and the artist's own milky glazes, the transformation of familiar domestic objects is an everyday miracle of repetition, each form consisting of exactly 400g of clay. This is the defining parameter - beyond it, the scope extends anywhere. The material rule-set of weight, glaze and medium permits an imaginative expansion through the 400g cubic edge. Repeated and repeated, the white cube stretches into the form that rises. This series is a nod towards the shared material origins of all things.