Praise. Cower. Bow. Shrug. Pose… Among the spectrum of human communication methods, body language is distinct in its profound social ability to instantly reveal our internal emotions. Non-verbal gestures are shared across diverse cultures and transcend linguistic barriers. Posers captures these fleeting articulations of the human body, distilling the nuances of human expressions and movement into a series of abstract forms. By utilizing 3D motion capture data, reductive, rectangular shapes are animated, studied, paused, and composed into single poses. In doing so, new animation softwares converge with the traditional craft of ceramic hand building, seamlessly synthesizing the digital and the real to embed human expression into tangible pieces. From subtle gestures to powerful stances, the pieces serve as palpable manifestations of the intricate non-verbal cues that shape human interactions, inviting viewers to decode the silent narratives embedded within ceramic forms. In doing so, the pieces take on a language of their own.

Photography: Elkin Jaramillo