Casting Memories
As a third-culture kid and product designer, Kasia Kaczmarek approaches her practice through a lens of in-between-ness, navigating questions of place, belonging, and identity. Her work combines material and ritual to trace the echoes of memory across time. Harvesting her own wild clay grounds her in the present and connects her to the land, embracing its unpredictability, embedded histories, and aliveness. Through slip casting with plaster molds, she shapes forms that become vessels for reflection. Engaging with both personal and collective memory, her work holds space for transformation, presence, and the unseen threads that tie us to one another and to the land.
Casting Memory
Her project Casting Memory is an interactive ritual that uses clay, tea, and shared experience to explore how memory creates a sense of place. Structured around a three-tiered vessel representing the past, present, and future, the ritual invites participants to engage through touch, taste, and storytelling. Each step becomes a way of connecting—not through geography, but through shared experience. Like her clay forms, the ritual holds space for transformation: a moment of becoming, grounded in presence and shaped by memory.