Traces - plaster and glass impressions

TRACES continues Scutts’s exploration of typography, materiality, and memory through experimental ceramic and glass processes. Using her unique vacuum forming method of plaster casting, she creates delicate, skin-like distortions. The resulting impressions capture the subtle topographies of text and object, preserving their physical traces within the plaster moulds.

Through compression, inversion, and removal, the process exposes both absence and presence which transforms the material into a record of tension, pressure, and transformation. The works become quiet fossils of the pre-digital age: objects whose technological usefulness and longevity are short-lived, yet which are immortalised in plaster. Their surfaces, soft
and sensuous to the touch, play with ideas of fragility, desire, and the necessity of tactility, which invites us to reconnect with what feels essential in our physical lives.

The introduction of glass into this series brings new clarity and light to the work. This medium bridges the translucency of the X-ray with the opacity and solidity of plaster.
It acts as a material metaphor for exposure and revelation, uniting inner and outer layers of meaning and continuing Scutts’s exploration of how form, language, and memory can coexist in both material and emotional transparency.