Fragment 1 — When Recipe Fades
In this fragment, I reflect on a moment when experimentation slowly pulled me away from the recipe — and how the material responded.
At the beginning, I followed the recipe.
The pots were solid. Predictable. They held.
As I made more, curiosity slowly took over.
I began to adjust.
Less cement.
More sand.
More peat moss.
More coco.
I thought I was improving the material.
In reality, I was drifting away from what held it together.
The fractures came quietly at first.
Then more clearly.
Sometimes days later.
Sometimes without warning.
I searched for the cause for a long time.
It wasn’t carelessness.
It wasn’t a lack of effort.
It was exploration without noticing the shift.
The recipe hadn’t failed me.
I had simply stepped away from it.
Even now, it still happens sometimes.
But today, it’s a different story.
This text is part of the ongoing Hors Series — Fragments of Matter,
a space dedicated to material, process, and what happens in between.
