FIELD STUDY — C8D1E3-FS
BOTANICAL HORIZON FIELD STUDY
OVERVIEW
Field Study C8D1E3-FS is a unique ceramic archive work by Craig Chiwoto exploring botanical imagery, modular composition, and the relationship between image and field.
Composed across fifteen ceramic modules, the work presents a continuous botanical horizon that traverses the ceramic surface as a unified field condition. Individual plant forms emerge and recede across the grid, allowing the work to be read simultaneously as image, surface, and assembled system.
Produced during an active period of image-transfer and surface-development research, the work preserves evidence of experimentation, registration shifts, tonal variation, and material behaviour. These characteristics are retained as part of the authorship of the piece and document the evolution of the studio’s visual language.
As a Field Study, this work exists as a singular archive artefact within the VLVLK Studio Archive.
FIELD READ
The composition operates as a botanical horizon.
Rather than presenting a singular specimen, the work assembles multiple plant species into a continuous field where forms overlap, emerge, and dissolve across the tiled structure.
The upper portion of the field remains intentionally open, creating visual breathing space and allowing the botanical elements to occupy the lower register of the composition. This relationship between density and absence creates a calm atmospheric reading suited to both architectural and domestic environments.
MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR
The work embraces the inherent variability of ceramic production.
Subtle fluctuations in transfer density, tonal intensity, line quality, surface texture, and image registration are preserved as evidence of process. These variations are considered part of the work rather than deviations from it.
COLOUR DETAIL
Soft Botanical Green
Layered botanical imagery expressed through translucent olive, sage, eucalyptus, and muted forest-green tonalities against a warm off-white ceramic ground.
The chromatic reading is calm, organic, and atmospheric, allowing the imagery to remain present without dominating the surrounding space.
CLASSIFICATION
Title:
Botanical Horizon Field Study
Code:
C8D1E3-FS
Category:
Field Study
Collection:
Studio Archive
Author:
Craig Chiwoto
Publisher:
VLVLK
Type:
Ceramic Wall Panel
Format:
15 Modular Ceramic Tiles
Dimensions:
L(730) × W(440) × H(7–8) mm
Coverage:
0.32m²
Edition:
1 of 1
Year:
2026
Status:
Studio Archive
STUDIO ARCHIVE
Field Studies are unique works generated during the evolution of VLVLK surface systems, image-transfer investigations, chromatic research, material explorations, and field compositions.
They are preserved as singular records of process, experimentation, and authorship within the Studio Archive.
No two Field Studies are identical.
