The Shape of an Imprint.
What happens when the form of an object is determined by something that was never designed to become an object? In Reversed Volumes, mischer’traxler turn fruits, vegetables and leaves into temporary moulds, capturing their surfaces inside the familiar geometry of a vessel. What remains is neither the natural form nor the original bowl, but a new object suspended between the two.
The process is deliberately simple. A leaf or produce is placed inside an existing vessel and the space between them is filled with casting material. Once the material has hardened, both the organic element and the original bowl are removed, leaving their impressions behind.
The fruit or leaf disappears, yet its skin, folds and irregularities remain precisely present in the resin. The resulting bowls and plates offer nature from its reverse side: not as something represented, but as a surface remembered by another material.
The series also reveals something central to mischer’traxler’s practice—their interest in processes that allow an object to emerge through interaction rather than direct shaping. Hand-finishing and slight variations in colour preserve a degree of individuality within the serial production. Reversed Volumes therefore sits between craft and industry, nature and manufacture, function and observation. A bowl becomes an imprint; a leaf becomes a plate; an ordinary piece of fruit becomes the hidden architecture of a vessel.
