Environmental portrait / craftTbilisi · 2026

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People
in Place.

The place is part of the portrait. Tools, materials, walls, light and routine tell me as much as a face does.

Environmental portraits · Artists, makers, founders

01 / People and their spaces

The objects, tools and traces of a place are part of the portrait.

Three spaces, three approaches

Different people. Different rooms.

01 Kao FurnitureWoodworking ↗02 PotPot StudioCeramics ↗03 Oskari CandlesMaker ↗

01 / A photographic chapter

Kao Furniture

Craft told through the surfaces, the tools, the repetition and the person at work.

KAO FURNITURE / 05 FRAMESTHE MATERIAL REMEMBERS

03 WOOD 02 PROCESS

Kao Furniture: woodworking studio artist at work — KAO / 01

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Every small cut is a decision.

03 WOOD 03 PORTRAIT

Kao Furniture: craftsperson shaving a wood form — KAO / 02

Kao Furniture: detail of sculpted grain of wood — KAO / 03

02 / A photographic chapter

PotPot Studio

A working studio told through hands, objects and the ordinary choreography of making.

POTPOT / STUDIO JOURNAL07 GLIMPSES OF MAKING

03 POTPOT 01 PORTRAIT

PotPot Studio makers in the communal studio — STUDIO / 03

03 POTPOT 02 OBJECT

The joy is in the doing, not just the finished thing.

PotPot Studio handpainting miniature ceramic figure — STUDIO / 01

03 POTPOT 03 PROCESS

PotPot Studio craftsperson working at studio table — STUDIO / 04

PotPot Studio ceramic objects and handmade details — STUDIO / 02

03 / A photographic chapter

Oskari Candles

Commercial imagery can still carry the traces of a person and a process.

OSKARI CANDLES / 06 FRAMESSMALL OBJECTS, REAL HANDS

03 OSKARI 01 PROCESS

03 OSKARI 02 DETAIL

Oskari Candles: heated wax and equipment — DETAIL / 01

Oskari Candles: artisan pouring wax — DETAIL / 02

Oskari Candles: decorative finished candle — DETAIL / 03

03 OSKARI ENVIRONMENT (REPLACE PORTRAIT)

What hands
leave behind.

The things between finished work and daily routine: a surface, a tool, a room, an unexpected gesture.

03 PLACE EXTRA 01

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evidence of making.