“What we really like to work with is materials that already have a long history in craft. So you can take puzzle pieces from the past and just turn them into [a] new thing.” - Guus Kusters

“The fascination of colour—there's a very specific moment I think that it sort of became a part of what we're working on. If you go from Eindhoven you have to pass this dyke, and you have to cross the two lakes, and it's two lakes on both sides. And the typical[ly] these lakes are completely different colours. So you see two lakes and one is grey-blueish, the other one is cream yellow, and every time you pass it it's different. And we were so fascinated by that, given it's just water and light. And that makes colour in a way, and that colour is also a bit ungraspable because it's ever-changing and so that was the point that we introduced colour as a really specific thing to research in our our work.” - Maarten Kolk

“I think it also has to do [with]... we were educated as designers and not as artists, and I think while maybe the border between those two disciplines [are] starting to overlap in a way, I think the mindset and the way you approach [it], I think the disciplines [are] quite separate from each other. And I think while we maybe start from a[n] artistic approach, but because we see ourselves as designers, we always found the production process and that it's sort of about reproduction. And as you could fit it into how things are being produced. That is still important to us, so that's why I think, from this artistic approach we tried to project that onto this production process and that gives us new insights. And therefore you can sometimes be innovative again based on this artistic approach." - Maarten Kolk

"We basically, in the end, want it to land. That it doesn't stay hanging, and floating in the air somewhere. You position it somewhere even though it's still abstract; that it has a certain direction.” - Guus Kusters

“I think it is, for us, it is not much about the slowness. It's more like, you know all the ceramics originated in China in a way. There it started, such a rich history and so much craft knowledge which you completely don't see anymore, because everybody knows these mass production pieces and the same china. That's what we sort of wanted to bring back, to revalue these chinese objects and that you can look at them differently again.” - Maarten Kolk