Cassandra Ei Lyn
Echo Lock & Key
Whispering Bamboo
Fashioned from bamboo, humble, enduring, and wise, this piece speaks not through ornament, but through form. Each element is cradled within another, as thoughts nest within silence. The vessel becomes more than function. It becomes gesture, breath, presence. Its spout rises like the tender curl of a sprouting shoot, or a flame caught mid-flicker - an offering, a quiet reaching. The handle bends in a gentle arc, light as an exhale. Circles appear again and again, not only in shape, but in space: small, then wide, then wider still. The eye follows the rhythm of these rings, and the hand follows, too. Though bamboo is dense and strong, here it is rendered fine - thin as a whisper, so that light may pass through and dwell within. It glows. It listens. The grain, shaped patiently by hand, bends with the curve, no longer linear, but flowing. It moves as if remembering water, echoing the direction of the cut, the sanding, the breath of the maker. In these subtle waves, the wood itself seems to move, quietly alive within its stillness. To open the vessel is to follow its rhythm. A key. Quietly hidden, slides not with force, but with understanding. It moves along a curve, as if tracing the memory of the bamboo itself. Unlocking becomes an act of respect: a motion learned, not imposed. There is no hinge, no command, only alignment. No flourish distracts. There is no need. This vessel holds not only what is placed within it, but also what is not. Air, intention, the quiet weight of presence. It is not loud, but it remains. Like all things shaped with devotion.
Synergetic Tray
The Breath of Wood
Like ripples held in stillness, the tray responds not with resistance, but with grace. Each triangular slat lifts and folds in deference to touch, an architecture of yielding. It does not impose form. It receives it. There is something ceremonial in its gesture, as though acknowledging every object placed upon it as worthy of reverence. The symmetry is not rigid but breathing, shifting with quiet complexity. A single point of pressure sends a silent murmur across the surface, each segment listening, echoing, adjusting. Though made of wood, it moves like fabric. Though geometric, it feels organic. A paradox in material and motion, it balances control with surrender. This tray is not a platform. It is a stage, a soft throne, a woven whisper of function and form.
Manta Ray Drift
A still moment in motion
Hand carved from a single piece of wood, Drift captures the fleeting grace of a manta ray gliding through water - weightless, effortless, eternal. The form is a moment paused: a curve of motion, a soft arc of direction. Every dip and swell in the wood echoes the rhythm of an unseen current. Gestures captured, like a creature drawn not by will, but by flow. The natural grain of the wood becomes part of the motion itself, like ripples caught midstream. Texture and shape merge, mimicking the manta’s dance between strength and softness.
This is not a sculpture of a manta ray.
It is a sculpture of movement.
Of lightness.
Of being carried.
Medium: Red Pinewood Dimension: W 151 x L 168 x H 67 mm. Year of production: 2015 Designed and made by: Cassandra Seah Ei Lyn (2015)
