Glacier Tiles by plonc.

What does it mean to fix into surface the traces of something that is, by nature, always vanishing? Ice resists permanence. It fractures, drifts, reforms, and disappears. To translate this ephemerality into porcelain is not imitation but authorship, a way of giving material form to the invisible chronologies of climate and time.

As Gaston Bachelard once wrote, “immensity is within ourselves.” The glacier is not just a distant spectacle but an interior resonance, a meditation on scale, fragility, and transformation. By carrying the memory of ice into architecture, surface becomes more than a backdrop: it becomes a register of planetary imagination.

plonc.’s Glacier Tile takes its cue from aerial geographies of ice shelves and drifting floes. In relief, one reads the grooves of fracture, the undulations of terrain, the quiet dispersal of fragments into current. These are not decorative patterns but geological inscriptions, pressing into space the vastness of processes normally too slow, too immense, to grasp.

To live with Glacier is to invite into a room the paradox of ice: monumental yet dissolving, ancient yet fragile, stable yet always in motion. Here, porcelain becomes not commodity but testimony, a crafted topography that holds within it the story of earth’s shifting thresholds.

Size: 1200x600x9mm