Yams

This week I completely finished up my larger sculptures by cleaning up the texture and adding an orifice to the taller of the two sculptures. I also took care of some material logistics by teaming up with Lauren Sopher and making a 200 pound batch of clay that we bagged up to use in the future. I also started a new piece on Monday. Right now I have three different larger bulbous forms going and I'm not sure if I'm going to connect them to make a ground piece or use one (or more) as bases for new sculptures. I will probably decide by how I feel when I get up to the studio today/this weekend. Thanks to Janie/Erica I will be meeting with Kate Tremel today or sometime soon to talk about sculptural surfaces and glazing. At this point it really seems like I just need to do a lot of experimenting and really decide what my intent is for these forms because at this point I have plenty of ideas for new sculptural pieces.

I'm feeling good about the pieces I have completed so far. In the critique yesterday I received a lot of comments about my taller piece looking like an elephant trunk, which is ok but

I'm hoping that

when the piece is glazed and

not gray that people won't automatically think of elephant. I did decide to use the linear m

arks as the surface texture

of my pieces and I am very happy with the way that they turned out. People really liked the scale of my pieces which makes me want to continue making larger and some medium sized pieces, and maybe some smaller ones. We'll see.

As of right now I would like to hopefully get two more pumped out by the end of this semester and experiment the hell of some glazes and surfaces.

Looking forward to Turkey Day :)

Pictures are of my taller sculpture finished up, my sculpture eating a girl, and a sweet potato that really reminded me of my pieces. I thought it was hilarious so I bought it and made some yummy yam fries the other night.