Hungry Ghosts

Hello dedicated readers, another week has passed in my wonderful IP journey. This week I focused on my presentation and building my two newer sculptures. I am feeling much better about my presentation after giving it today and only have a few things to fix before our reviews next week. Although the presentation was a hassle to put together (I HATE Powerpoint), I think it has allowed me to define my project in its current stage.

I have been building up two sculptures simultaneously , one of which has a HUGE base that I am really excited about. I don't think it will be as tall as my tallest piece, but probably more like my shorter and fatter one. I plan on breaking off midway up the structure and creating two different arm-like structures that have orifices. I think doing this will allow for some physical interaction between the pieces, not just visual and spacial. I am still doing glaze experiments, although I really need to get my mock up pieces in this next bisque firing so I have test tiles to work with. In addition to the two bigger sculptures I made a large bulbous form that has different surface textures that I will be doing more targeted glaze experiments on. I think that I need to see glazes on larger surfaces than what my mock up's provide.

For this weekend I plan on building more and getting my next round of glazes in the kiln while polishing up my presentation.

Yay for break soon, I'm going to NYC for the first time on the 16th, right after reviews!!

Do the Astral Plane

This week in IP i did not get as much work done as I would have liked. I worked on my presentation during most of my spare time, or was in the ceramic studio building. Mostly I didn't get as much done because I became really sick on Wednesday and am still feeling under the weather today. All I can say is.. thank god for Penicillin. I'm hoping that this weekend I can work on building my forms some more while creating more mini and large glaze/surface test tiles.

Working on the structure of the presentation has really helped me define where my project is at this point. I was feeling kind of lost in my mind about what direction I'm going in. I'm not intirly sure still, but I think that I have a loose idea planned out.

I found a new artist whose work I really dig, her name is Bean Finneran. Finneran actually studied at U of M during some point in her early education. She creates these bushes, bundles, or piles if you will of brightly colored ceramic tubes. They have this fuzzy illusion about them created b y

the repititon and placement of the hard ceramic tubes. I really admire the fact that she is taking ceramics, an incredibly fragile and solid medium and producing a delicate yet bouncy form. Here are

images of her work.