preserved garden – iron 2
Marten Herma Anderson, 2026

glazed stoneware
37 x 28 x 4 cm

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This series began the way many of Anderson’s works do: with something small falling out of place, a pressed flower slipped from between the pages of a book, the kind his grandmother used to tuck in as bookmarks.

The wall pieces that followed sit at the intersection of sweet memory and architectural constraint, ceramic forms shaped by pressure, heat, and gravity, carrying the quiet logic of things that grow within systems not designed for them. Botanical silhouettes emerge and dissolve within contained frames, never fully escaping the structure that holds them. Their metallic, iridescent glazes, the kind of shimmer you might find in car-tuning culture or in the silver-foiled prefab walls of the early 1990s, are simultaneously seductive and unsettling, beautiful, synthetic, and somehow honest about both.

Running through it all is landscape as memory container, fragments of a particular hill on Rügen, where a brick church stood watch over plum trees and wildflower meadows and the fields dissolved into the Baltic, pressed into the ceramic surface so it doesn’t disappear entirely.

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