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Talents: Mina Karami – Swedish Ceramic Artist
Mina Karami
Designer/ Ceramic artist
Find Me: @some_of_one_kind
Secret Talent: Using only my hands to create underwater goggles
Tell us about your work in a few words
I like to shape and experiment with shapes – colourful people places and details inspire me. I put a lot of love into the handmade process and I am a strong believer of a sustainable way of living and handling materials and production. I aim for my work to be fun – both the experience of looking at it and the making of it.
“I want my design work to be inclusive, broad and bold! I love when the creative process allows me to team up with other amazing creative brains.”
Who do you look up to?
My mom, she is my role model and gives me so much inspiration, strength and love.
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘diversity’?
Diversity is a necessity. Diversity for me is family. It’s the beauty of things/people/places/materials!
“I like the way clay, when you have gotten to know it, allows you to rethink things during the [making] process.”
What materials are your favourite to work with?
I love working with clay. Clay as a material is playful, kind and full of life. It is a material that can capture the soft and the hard at the same time. I like the way clay, when you have gotten to know it, allows you to rethink things during the process. The fact that you, until you decide to fire it and freeze it in you chosen shape, can always break it apart, put it in water and reshape it, makes it a fantastic material.
Once fired, clay turns into ceramic. It is mind blowing that ceramic is an every day material found in kitchens and bathrooms worldwide as well as being a high-tech material found in technical parts of spaceships and power plants!