Raku clay plate. During the extraction from the second Raku oven, some cracks were formed: they were consolidated with Black Roiro Urushi lacquer mixed with bamboo wood powder. Finished with Neri Bengara Urushi lacquer and yellow and red gold powder kt.24 in medium grain. 
in you a reflection of mine on what it means to be a 'pataphysicist today. 'Pataphysics, which Alfred Jarry defined as "the science of imaginary solutions," for me lies precisely at the crossroads of intellectual play, provocation, and an ironic and surreal vision of reality. Being a 'pataphysicist today means adopting an attitude that challenges rigid rationalism and the seriousness of institutions, instead giving space to creativity, paradox, and imagination. 
Drops of knowledge... and of tin 
Can eight hundred words be enough? For some linguists, they are sufficient for basic communication. And then... there is the language that bends to the will of the interlocutor and shapes thought. Lemmas, words, rhetorical figures that transcend culture and become art and provocation.
Here is the tin can, the ultimate example of a consumer item, useful for containing food for immediate use before being discarded, which becomes one with the lemmas of an ancient dictionary. The label, seen a thousand times and perhaps never truly read, with its small characters listing a thousand contents, replaced with ancient words from an old dictionary dated 1949. Signs of a time that is no more. Symbols of a culture that only partly belongs to us, evolved and devolved through and from time.
"Jars: Drops of Knowledge" is a simple means of disseminating a word, which (perhaps) we might never have encountered, unaware of its existence, thus losing a piece of our culture. Of our being thinking and verbalizing individuals.
The orientation of the text is not coincidental. In a world of fast reading where entire lines of text are skipped or a text is scanned capturing only the italicised or bold words, even just the effort of turning the jar horizontally, perhaps just to glance at the text, constitutes the action that leads to knowledge. That quid which stimulates thought and evolves its expression with ancient tools: words.
Each jar is a unique piece, numbered and signed.
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