Story Water by
Koa Phạm
Each vessel is shaped in clay as a body. An environment where movement can unfold. When resin is poured, the glitter within traces that motion, capturing the flow as it moves through and interacts with the structure. The glitter behaves like a story or a memory: it travels, it settles, and in doing so, it reveals the shape of something unseen.
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MATERIAL
100% Resin
DIMENSION
20x20x32cm
PACKAGING
25x25x35cm
NOTE
DO NOT PUT HOT STUFF IN THE VESSEL
Story Water
A story is like water
that you heat for your bath.
It takes messages between the fire
and your skin. It lets them meet,
and it cleans you!
(...)
Water, stories, the body,
all the things we do, are mediums
that hide and show what's hidden.
Study them,
and enjoy this being washed
with a secret we sometimes know,
and then not.
- Rumi -
This series began after reading Rumi’s Story Water, a meditation on how form and flow interact to reveal what is otherwise hidden. Inspired by this, I began creating vases iteratively to explore flows and drops as a unified expression of life.
Each vessel is shaped in clay as a body. An environment where movement can unfold. When resin is poured, the glitter within traces that motion, capturing the flow as it moves through and interacts with the structure. The glitter behaves like a story or a memory: it travels, it settles, and in doing so, it reveals the shape of something unseen.
Like Rumi’s idea that “the body... is a medium that hides and shows,” these vases act not simply as containers but as records of motion and spaces where material and metaphor meet. Each piece becomes a moment held, a secret briefly revealed, and then stilled.