TENDER VII

True strength lies in being soft.

The TENDER series is hand-coiled using coarse black clay, built ring by ring with patience and care. Each coil is added slowly, the form kept upright and composed through every stage — a quiet, repetitive process that mirrors the idea at the heart of the series: that staying soft, again and again, takes its own kind of discipline.

Softness is not the absence of strength. It is a form of it.

Left rough and dark on the outside, each piece reveals its true nature only within — a transparent glaze poured inside, uncovering a warm brown beneath the coarse black clay. What looks hard from the outside holds something gentler at its core. A reminder that being kind to yourself, and to others, asks more of you than toughness ever could — and that the two can live in the same object, the same person, at once.

True strength lies in being soft, not tough.

Each piece comes with a certificate of authenticity.

— Hand-coiled, ring by ring, no wheel used
— Coarse black clay, unglazed exterior, transparent glaze interior
— The object's height is 19 cm
— One-of-one, no two pieces identical
— At home anywhere: on a shelf, a table, a gallery wall
— Made in the Studio in Vreeland, the Netherlands

This is a one-of-one piece. Once sold it will not be restocked.