Hannah Bernhardt

Before there was the giant Trash Quilt made for TEDX, there was this Trash Quilt, made through my first semester of art school, filled with many of the wrappers, packaging, and papers I consumed, and would have otherwise thrown away, in that time. I cut the wrappers into strips, and tightly packed them into a piece of bubble wrap that had caught my eye for its puffy, quilt-like shapes. Collecting my own trash is often a stressful process, seeing the overwhelming abundance of my own personal waste amass into a pile on my desk that I would then have to try to contain. And yet it is beautiful, the wrapper’s colors create this accidental composition that I can’t quite get enough of.

Omg heyyy…. THE ETSY IS OPEN!!!! I’ll be adding more throughout the month but there’s some real goodies in there for you to sn**ch right up! Go buy pots baby!!!!! Link in bio. With love, Hannah💕

“18 pots” thrown in 18 minutes, and dropped on top of each other so they squished and bent and folded. I love what clay does when it is soft: this project was all about preserving the movement and flex of clay in its first, shortest stage.
The designs are painted in cobalt oxide stain, meant to be a stylized version of blue and white china dishes.

“Can Crown” for a Trash Princess 👑

Made entirely of pop cans, Wanting to capture the magic of feeling like a princess as a little girl playing pretend, when being a princess didn’t have a million expectations around it and was just fun and glamorous instead
Pop cans as a continued exploration of my material studies of discarded, overlooked, “waste” items

My second fav piece from my first fav firing of the year (eeeeee)
More to come - it’s just so satisfying when clay does what you want it to for a little while, so I wanted to share right away (:

Been weaving up an mfn storm lately!! ⛈⚡️💪
Also: making plarn like my life depends on it😘