Andara ♥ Andaré Siriia 85 (blue strips)* / 6g

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

These blue striped Andaras immediately caught my eye with the regular alternation of deep blue and clear sections .. At first glance, they look almost like layered glass, or bands of light held within matter. When I look at them – I see traces 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 develop intriguing layers, flows, lines and colour transitions .. * So I can quite naturally imagine that bands like these could have formed as a result of the layering and solidification of glassy material — as though individual flows of blue and clear material had settled 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 and fluid, and then solidified into its final form. That is why I see these striped Andaras as pieces holding 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 orderly. To me, they are not just ” blue pieces ” .. They are layers of light that have remained inscribed in matter.