MATERIAL POETRY · METALCRAFT
The Language of the Hammer
Copper
Annealing
Touch
To hold a copper vessel is to grasp a language folded by the hammer.
Copper softens in the annealing flame and remembers every strike as it cools;
the artisan’s touch is a blueprint older than any drawing.
The Artisan
Kelsang Dorje
4th-generation Lhasa coppersmith, master of chasing and gilding, devoted to statues and tokcha.
Craft Spec
Material
Red copper / brass / meteoric iron
Craft
Forging · chasing · gilding · patina
Origin
Lhasa · Nepal workshops
Note
Each texture one of a kind