Léa Mazy is a visual artist and product design that is developing a printing method for the ceramic industry. A new approach which envisions to inspire and challenge more manufactures to sustainable and innovative visions in existing production processes.
The Production of Fatigue features is a printing process revealing the creative potential of fatigue and exposing its unexpected aesthetic qualities, making use of the fading quality of a printer as its ink cartridges run low. To do this, the artist features an analogue and hand-powered tool replicates the movements of a printer with a back and forth linear motion. As the result of handcrafted mechanical and systematic motion she designed, each print on the tile is the recording of its own production pace. In addition, depending on the surface the printing-method is applied on, an always surprising and subtle variety of color and pattern nuances emerges.
With her research, Léa aims to demonstrate that “the tile industry is a great platform to show the possibility of distinction and subtleties in mass-produced standard pieces”. “Each tile becomes the witness of a unique outcome.” Léa says.
