Ouroboros Ottoman

Ouroboros Ottoman engages with symbolism and embedded narratives through a contemporary object, where esoteric imagery and material duality articulate cyclical transformation within a cosmic unity. The work draws on archaic Egyptian symbolism and its resonance in the present.

With Ouroboros – the serpent devouring its own tail – as a central motif, it explores cycles of dissolution and becoming, where beginning and end converge in a continuous passage.

The object unfolds as an ottoman, where a ceramic insert in deep, glossy black stoneware is embedded within an ivory textile volume. The stoneware’s spiral movement articulates the motif’s circular logic and through its divided form, an embroidered infinity symbol emerges as one of the object’s esoteric layers. Through clay, grounded in fire and transformation, the work’s symbolic resonance is materialised as a reflection on the conceptual realm of Ouroboros.