Study No.01-Remaining
Study No.01 began with an unexpected relationship.
Years ago, I moved to the Philippines. I didn't go looking for what I found there. The place changed how I understood myself, my family, my culture, and the world around me, and it did so without asking.
Some experiences don't leave. They settle into the way you see things, into the materials you're drawn to, into what you find yourself returning to years later without fully understanding why.
Study No.01 — Remaining is a reflection on one of those experiences.
remaining
Some experiences leave us when they end. Others remain.
Not as stories, but as impressions—light, texture, rhythm, and feeling carried forward through time.
Remaining explores the traces left behind after a transformative encounter. Fragments translated into objects through form, surface, and ritual.
Not a document of a place, but an exploration of what lingers after it.
Three Studies of what remains.
Dew explores the quiet beginning of a relationship.
Inspired by the humid condensation gathering on tropical leaves at first light, it reflects the moment something first enters our awareness. A place, a person, an experience that feels unfamiliar yet strangely familiar at the same time.
Like morning dew, first impressions are delicate. They often appear briefly before disappearing. Yet some leave traces that remain long after the moment has passed.
dew
Indikoi Ceramics
Silt explores what settles over time.
Inspired by sediment left behind as water recedes, it reflects the gradual accumulation of experience. Understanding rarely arrives all at once. It forms through repetition, observation, and time spent in relationship with a place.
What was once unfamiliar begins to reveal itself. Layers build. Meanings deepen. Impressions become understanding.
silt
Swan City Ceramics
Ash explores what remains after transformation.
Inspired by charcoal, smoke, and volcanic landscapes, it reflects the evidence left behind when something has fundamentally changed. Not an ending. A record of what passed through.
Some experiences alter the way we understand ourselves. Their influence continues long after the moment has ended. What once felt external becomes part of who we are.
ash
Lamai Ceramics
land & memory
Land & Memory is the framework beneath everything Undefined Objects makes.
It begins with a simple belief: certain experiences leave impressions that don't fade. A place, a relationship, a moment. Most pass through us unnoticed. Others settle permanently, quietly shaping how we move through everything that comes after.
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Undefined Objects explores those impressions through objects, materials, and curated environments. Not as records of the past, but as vessels for what remains.
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Land & Memory is an ongoing exploration of what remains after experience has moved through us.
The encounter
This collection is not about documenting the Philippines.
It is about honoring the moment we first met.
The landscapes, textures, and atmospheres that appear throughout the study are drawn from memories that left a lasting impression: humid mornings, volcanic terrain, black sand beaches, coconut husk charcoal fires, tropical vegetation, and the rhythms of everyday life.
They remain not because I chose them, but because they changed me.
Like all meaningful relationships, their influence continued long after the moment itself had passed.
