Making Waves is a series of hand-built ceramic sculptures, designed by Matt Blackwood and made by Csilla Csongvay, and were exhibited during Melbourne Design Week. The six ceramic sculptures are layered in a series of undulating waves, representing the dramatic rise and fall of pandemics across human history.
Pandemics have affected our lives since the ancient Greeks and the Plague of Athens, where disease challenged democratic institutions and human behaviour to the point that it undermined the world’s first democracy. The rise and fall of Making Waves reference how each step towards hygiene, vaccination and broader care are the foundations in reducing these pandemic waves before they build into a tsunami.
