Visit the Solo Exhibition from November 8 to 16 at the Kesemy Design studio in Amsterdam.
Brush It Off brings together several years of exploring the creative process through handmade ceramic brushes—each one cast from liquid clay and paired with grasses and leaves I’ve gathered over time.
The project began with a spontaneous impulse: to shape a brush. That impulse grew into action, then into design.
These brushes, made from clay and plants, aren’t intended for traditional use. They’re not for painting, but for imagining. They function as symbols of process, curiosity, and creative instinct.
Somewhere between tool, sculpture, and ritual object, they blur the line between thinking and doing—between function and artwork. What happens when the tool becomes the artwork?
This shift invites reflection on making as an act in itself. The work values process over product, intuition over perfection.
In the space, brushes are display and some are activated by visitors—inviting interaction, play, and shared exploration. Stillness and action coexist.
Brush It Off is a space for questions rather than fixed answers. It presents craft as a living thing, evolving practice—one where meaning emerges through material, gesture, and the simple act of doing.
I made over 50 handmade ceramic brushes for this collection, which will be on display in my studio—come see them in person during the exhibition, November 8–16.
Slip casting, Hand building. Earthenware and slip-casting clay, Ceramic Glaze, grass, leaves. Photography by Kesem Yahav, Jody Liu. Designed and produced by Kesem Yahav at the Kesemy Design studio in Amsterdam.
Brush it off, 2025
Brush It Off by Kesem Yahav
Visit the Solo Exhibition from November 8 to 16 at the Kesemy Design studio in Amsterdam.
Brush It Off brings together several years of exploring the creative process through handmade ceramic brushes—each one cast from liquid clay and paired with grasses and leaves I’ve gathered over time.
The project began with a spontaneous impulse: to shape a brush. That impulse grew into action, then into design.
These brushes, made from clay and plants, aren’t intended for traditional use. They’re not for painting, but for imagining. They function as symbols of process, curiosity, and creative instinct.
Somewhere between tool, sculpture, and ritual object, they blur the line between thinking and doing—between function and artwork. What happens when the tool becomes the artwork?
This shift invites reflection on making as an act in itself. The work values process over product, intuition over perfection.
In the space, brushes are display and some are activated by visitors—inviting interaction, play, and shared exploration. Stillness and action coexist.
Brush It Off is a space for questions rather than fixed answers. It presents craft as a living thing, evolving practice—one where meaning emerges through material, gesture, and the simple act of doing.
I made over 50 handmade ceramic brushes for this collection, which will be on display in my studio—come see them in person during the exhibition, November 8–16.
Slip casting, Hand building.
Earthenware and slip-casting clay, Ceramic Glaze, grass, leaves.
Photography by Kesem Yahav, Jody Liu.
Designed and produced by Kesem Yahav at the Kesemy Design studio in Amsterdam.