Karmen Saat Creates Beautiful Textured Ceramics With Casts of Rotten Fruit

Innovative artist <a title="Karmen Saat Creates Beautiful Textured Ceramics By Casting Rotten Fruits" href="http://www.karmensaat.com/" target="_blank">Karmen Saat</a> finds her inspiration in the ugly and discarded. Her Rotten Beauty collection of <a title="Karmen Saat Creates Beautiful Textured Ceramics By Casting Rotten Fruits" href="http://inhabitat.com/mischertraxlers-reversed-volumes-bowls-are-cast-from-fruits-and-vegetables/" target="_blank">ceramics</a> capture the extraordinary textures of rotten fruit. By using strong durable materials to record an ephemeral changing process, Saat is able to capture a unique moment in time while creating gorgeous functional art.

With her expressive Rotten Beauty collection she aims to challenge people’s perception of beauty, while creating beautiful, high-quality containers.

Originally from Estonia, Karmen lives and works in London and Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

She was recently showed her work at Dutch Design Week and enthusiastically shared with us the background to the collection.

Karmen uses seasonal fruits like strawberries, melons, kiwis and mangoes as models, casting their rotten skins to record their extraordinary textures.

Her latest addition to her Rotten Beauty collection is the iridescent color illusion – made by using complementing colour gradients -- making the colors change when the pieces are moved up and down.

Detailed, expressive and beautiful, Karmen’s work challenges our perception on everyday objects and makes us appreciate the inherent beauty of decadence.