Busted

I haven't posted in a while, but I will have some greenware photos by the end of the week. My current project is half life-sized (or nearly half life-sized) figures. They put a feminist spin on Sartre's theory of "bad faith."

Until those photos are posted, however, here's a look at what we've been doing in my Intermediate/Advanced Figure Sculpture class.

Go figure

This is the second ceramic body of work from this semester. Here are two pieces from my class on ceramic surface treatments and that were posted previously in their green states.



B-mix, white slip, shop clear glaze, decals, and twine




B-mix, black underglaze, white terra sigillata, pearl luster

I tried a couple different techniques with these, which gave me the desired results and have appropriate metaphors for the work.
I haven't found a surface language which I really desire to continue using, and I'm thinking that maybe my language isn't in the surfaces but the forms and objects. I do have ideas for surfaces lined up for this semester which I'm pretty excited to try.

Sexy Objects

Here are the finished products from this semester. I have two ceramic bodies of work to show. This first one is a selection of my porcelain objects based off commercial products. They are decorated with a clear glaze and then mason stains, china paints, decals, and lusters.

Hot Damn

These are just a few pieces still in my studio from a woodfire this past month. Made from the studio's Tile 6 and Loafer's Glory stonewares with various glazes and flashing slips. Some pieces were salt fired.

These are woodfired pieces I tried water erosion designs with wax resist. Didn't work so well but I hear shellac works better, so maybe next time. The subtlety is nicer in person, though.

I'm going to do some fiber work with these. I'm thinking weaving and crocheting... when I find the time.

Ceramic pinhole cameras. Woodfired, Tile 6 stoneware. For sale at the MICA Art Market!

More cameras and some bowls to be fired for the Art Market.


Again, I apologize for the weird formatting problems.

New Blog for New Ceramics

Hey yall. This is my first semester as a ceramics major. I'm in two ceramic studios, so most of what I'm posting is from assignments for them.

The two figures are independent work for my surfaces class. They haven't been bisque fired yet and have a lot of surface work to come.



















This figure is about hope for a woman who is my best friend's mother and my second mom. She was diagnosed with cancer, and it made me think about how shocking it is for such a dangerous thing to be growing inside a body without anyone's noticing.






















Two views of the same figure. She's about growing up in a conservative environment where talking sexuality is relatively taboo. Education is minimal and people don't talk about it. So there was a lot for a curious person to discover and try to make sense of on her own. The general sense is that you keep your legs closed and don't talk about it.





















In the first body of work I took name brand products and reproduced the bottles over-sized and in porcelain. Consumers buy name brand products as status symbols. Porcelain is traditionally a luxurious material, so I made the products in the scale of and they will be decorated after Victorian porcelain pitchers.

With this second body of objects, I stepped farther from the form of the actual objects in favor of more voluptuous and suggestive forms.

There are photos coming of the first body of porcelain objects.

And please forgive the formatting on this blog. I'm just not much for computers, and the autoformatting has me beat. haha.