The project "dots and traces" is experimental research to explore the liveliness of slips. A robot arm, equipped with a plant drip irrigation device, transports two types of slips, thereby helping us to accurately let them drop into regular patterns. Whereas porcelain slips, when dropped on the casted objects, keep a three-dimensional shape, a mixture of porcelain and glaze creates flat and glossy patterns on the object's surface.

When a slip drops from the nozzle and touches the surface, the underlying surface absorbs moisture from the slip, thus "freezing" the shape of the drops and leaving their motion perceivable.Through a sequence of repeated movements, dots and traces are gathering, scattering, and overlapping.Those are mathematical patterns which evoke a natural geometry.

Gravity is the invisible key player in this project. Whereas the arranged set up, with defined viscosities, the surface and movement of the robot arm, is given in advance, the ultimate outcome results in an interplay of the set-up with gravity. The process makes gravity visible. Everything is in its place because of a prior movement.