Andara ♥ Andaré Siriia 87 (blue strips)* / 12g

Striped Andaras / that’s what I call them . . 

These blue striped Andaras immediately caught my attention with the regular alternation of deep blue and clear sections within them .. At first glance, they look almost like layered glass, or bands of light held within matter. When I look at them – I see the trace of a process — movement, pressure, heat, and gradual cooling.

Our Andaras come from Indonesia, from the Lumpung Krakatau region, which is associated with a volcanic landscape. It is around volcanoes that materials form which, through sudden changes in temperature, melting, cooling, and movement, can create intriguing layers, flows, lines, and colour transitions .. * So I can quite naturally imagine that bands like these could have formed through the layering and solidification of glassy material — as though individual flows of blue and clear material were laid down within it as it formed. Not as perfect crystal growth, but rather as a record of the movement of matter that was once soft, hot, fluid, and then solidified into its final form. That is why I see these striped Andaras as pieces with a memory of movement. As little records of light showing that earth, fire, pressure, and time, too, can create something very precise, beautiful, and surprisingly ordered. To me, they are not just ” blue pieces ” .. They are layers of light that remain inscribed in matter.