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Footed Remembrance Pot

Joinery sculptures with a space inside

Footed Remembrance Pot | body + lid — © photo by: Coen Dijkstra

Storage objects made from archaeological wood - 14th century and later - to fill with a memory of an ancestor or the ashes of a loved one. A stone, a note, or perhaps nothing. Footed Remembrance Pot allows you to connect daily with 'the unseen’. To help you remember to remember.

Footed remembrance pots

Joinery sculptures with space inside to fill with a memory. A representation of an ancestor or for the ashes of a beloved person who has been cremated. A stone, a note, or precisely nothing. Footed remembrance pots is an object with which you can connect with 'the unseen' in a daily way. To help you remember to remember.

About Daan Simons

Fascinated by Japanese wooden joints and the precision in working with them Simons' work exist entirely out of solid wood joint together. These connections in wood slide in and out of each other without being fixed by glue. In this manner both the one element as the whole keep their value.

Footed Remembrance Pot | front view — © photo by: Coen Dijkstra

Footed Remembrance Pot | total — © photo by: Coen Dijkstra

Footed Remembrance Pot | total + hands — © Coen Dijkstra

Footed Remembrance Pot | alle elements detached — © Coen Dijkstra