BY HANNA HEINO
EXCLUSIVELY FOR STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN
ON VIEW AT STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN NEW YORK GALLERY
UNIQUE WORK
SIGNED, SERIAL NUMBER AND CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
SPARKLING SEEDS COLLECTION
YEAR 2023
GLAZED STONEWARE
| IN | H | 16.9 | W | 11 | D | 8.6 | ||||
| CM | H | 43 | W | 28 | D | 22 |
HAND SCULPTED IN FINLAND
AVAILABLE
LOCATION FINLAND
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Sparkling Seeds II by Hanna Heino is a work rooted in the intimacy of close observation and the quiet discipline of daily life stripped to its essentials. Created during a five-month stay in an abandoned house by the forest, a place without floors, without windows, where the kiln lived beneath a decaying porch and the day began and ended outdoors, the work emerged from an unlikely garden. Under the studio window, Heino dug benches from the earth and lined them with old bricks, coaxing a small patch of life into being. From that spot, she watched tiny seeds become blooms and herbs, a process of patient unfolding that became both the subject and the spirit of the work
Three forms rise in careful equipoise — a broad, earth-smoothed base; a dense middle volume alive with layered, petal-like surfaces; and a small, luminous seed form balanced at the crown, glazed to a soft sheen. Each element speaks a different register of growth: the grounded, the generative, the nascent. Together they compose a kind of quiet tower of becoming, an image of nature’s persistence rendered in pale, unified tones that suggest bone, stone, and dried grass in equal measure
The textures carry the work’s emotional weight. The fine, almost granular surface of the base evokes soil and bark; the middle form burgeons with overlapping ceramic petals, each one hand-placed, accumulating into something abundant and alive; the topmost element holds its gloss like a drop of morning light. In their differences, the three forms find an unexpected harmony — held together by the same muted palette and by the same underlying truth: that small things, tended with patience, become extraordinary
Sparkling Seeds II is a testament to the transformative power of attention. A work born from hardship and solitude, it carries within it something luminous — the recognition that beauty takes root even in the most unguarded places
