Andara ♥ Andaré Siriia 84 (blue strips)* / 18g

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

These blue striped Andaras immediately caught my attention with the regular way their deep blue and clear sections alternate .. At first glance, they look almost like layered glass, or bands of light embedded in 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, currents, 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 currents of blue and clear material had been 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 and fluid, and then solidified into its final form. That is why I see these striped Andaras as pieces that hold a memory of movement. Like little records in light of how 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.