Presented for Homo Faber 2026, BARK Candelabra is the result of Sarah’s investigations into clay’s natural tendency to shrink, crack and transform throughout the making process. To her, the project is a tribute to an ancient material that has long been controlled and refined. Rather than directing the material, she facilitates a framework in which it can express its own inherent qualities and logic. This approach is in line with Sarah’s central practice, which seeks to play with the autonomous behaviour and properties of materials as they interact on their own terms in the movement of glazes, the precipitation of metals or the cracking of clay during drying and firing.