plonc. Fossilised Leaves

An Authored Surface - Completed Works

Fossilised Leaves is not a pattern applied to porcelain, but a record pressed into it. Designed and produced by plonc., the surface carries the imprint of leaf forms as geological memory, translated through relief rather than image. What appears botanical at first glance reveals itself as stratigraphic, each vein and fracture registering pressure, time, and material transformation.

This is not decoration, nor an illustrative motif. The leaf here is not symbolic. It is structural. Embedded into the surface as if sedimented, the relief recalls fossil beds where organic matter becomes archive, where growth is slowed, compressed, and carried forward as record rather than representation.

In space, Fossilised Leaves does not assert itself loudly. It works through proximity and touch. Light travels across its ridges and depressions, activating shadow and depth, allowing the surface to change through the day. It is a tile that resists repetition, resisting the neutrality of mass production in favour of singular encounter.

This work has been realised in two projects only. One in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, one in Melbourne. No further production is planned in this form. Fossilised Leaves exists as a completed chapter within plonc.’s Studio archive, a reminder that some surfaces are not meant to circulate, but to settle into place.

Format

1200 × 600 × 9mm

Internal wall and floor application