Trepō is a project of ceramic artist Kenny Sing of Turn Studio in which it shows a series of shallow vessels doing Zoetrope (19th-century optical illusion) animations when spun.
“The vessels, hand thrown on a pottery a wheel, serve as a canvas for abstracted frames of simple animations. Precisely designed in a digital space, the patterns are carefully transferred from computer to the one-of-a-kind curves of each platter, then carved or painted. The playful patterns hide behind their stillness, waiting to be spun at just the right speed, and viewed at just the right frame rate, to reveal their true magical selves. With each calculated rotation, each frame of the animation takes the place of its previous frame, a flip-book who’s every page is seen at once,” their website reads.
