Splashdown
PDX-based Melt Modern’s dynamic aluminum bowl
What we love most about the Splash Bowl from Portland’s Melt Modern is that it makes dynamic what would otherwise be the still life on your table top. Motion captured, each piece is unique, made using a sand cast mold into which liquid aluminum is repeatedly splashed. See also, Melt Modern’s fab aluminum table runner.
Sculptor Matt Proctor and artist Aixé Djelal are Melt Modern, working out of a warehouse in inner SE. They do custom work as well as the bowls, table runners, and an aluminum room divider.
Ah, now we know why this speaks to us. The bowl, in particular, reminds us of Richard Serra’s “Gutter Corner Splash: Night Shift, 1969/1995,” in the collection of SFMOMA (interestingly a gift of Jasper Johns), but of course Serra’s piece, bad MF that he is, is lead.
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