LAVA, immersed in the poetics of a childhood dream with its winding lines, creates an oneiric place of human interaction. The project was based on Mirecka's drawings. The red line of metal bars outlines the shape of the objects, making a cohesive whole. Together with the user they are supposed to create a moving illustration. In an interview with Culture.pl Mirecka explains:
In my projects interacting with the user is very important, friendly and invigorating to life and dreams. What I also want to do is create a new, slightly magical, calm and comfy reality out of everyday events.
LAVA was created in a very casual way, without an earlier plan. Mirecka wanted the process of creation to be like sketches; that's why she chose to improvise instead of plan. Instead of preconception, she chose intuition, using childhood sensitivity and the will to explore. That's how she describe this process:
I built these clumsy, drawn forms – as if drawing with pen and paper – improvising with a metal bar, a metal-cutter, a bender and a welder. (…) No object was based on a drawing. Each of them was built as a sketch. Sometimes I had to bend one more, cut a leg, destroy and weld again, take a step back, look, put some tape on and... think about what else is lacking. It's a slow project, but very manual and 'hands on'.
LAVA lemonade has been displayed at many design festivals, among others in Berlin and Amsterdam. The project is very personal for the author; it's her 'dream come true'. She's also an important part of the project, serving lemonade to the guests. She also asks others, mostly her sisters to help her. Coming back to memories, she says:
I feel as if I've gone back to my childhood, when we stole berries from our neighbour with my siblings, to later sell at the market next to grandma's house.
Author: Agata Morka, December 2014, translated by: N. Mętrak-Ruda, December 2015.