Hello! This week for IP I spent my studio time in the ceramic studio. These weeks seem to be going by very fast, which kind of scares me. I feel like I have no time to think about anything.... anyways, I'm ready with this new beautiful loner computer from IT (because my keyboard and track thingy are broken boo:( .So, some exciting progressions are that I loaded my first two bug pieces into the seven foot kiln. We had to use a forklift!! It was so freaking cool/I was about to pee my pants the entire time they were up in the air. I am waiting to fire the kiln until I finish the two more medium pieces, which will hopefully be this weekend because I am really getting tired of working on them. I have in progress pictures of them shown below.
I had a good conversation with Seth and Amanda on Tuesday that makes me want to slow down for a day or two and really think about what my next steps are in terms of building and surface. They suggested that I possibly look into creating a narrative, if just for my self, about the creatures... so how do they grow or reproduce? what do the different surfaces mean, what does the scale have in relation to say their age of sex? I like the biological terms being throw around such as, fission, budding, and asexual. If I spend some more time thinking and planning it'll help me figure out what I'm really trying to day with these pieces. I wish clay didn't take so damn long to build with.... hopefully I will feel better when I can just move on to small organisms. I feel a lot of time pressure to produce, which is good I guess.
this weekend (it's sunday now) and I'm pretty much done with the bigger pieces, just a few more segments to finish up.. I've got two smaller ones going now.... yet it's taking a lot of effort to scale down. The two pieces bases I'm working on now aren't as small as the first two, but they're much considerably smaller than the large ones. I'm hopefully going to be able to fire a surface study I did earlier so I can play with washes (and maybe slips.... it might be too dry though). I'm thinking that if I can a skin, organic looking surface by firing up to cone 6 that my pieces would survive the firing and have a nice surface. I fear that I won't have this ready for the critique on thursday, which stinks because the classes feedback would be nice. Hopefully I can finish these big ones and make progress on the new ones that people will have work to talk about.
Anyways... I'm off to do some soul searching with my IP project
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binary fission---- create a piece that is in progress of splitting--- two pieces that are exactly the same--- arms could be the beginning on the split
Shout out to F.O.K.U.S. for putting on Michigan's first BEAT BATTLE!!
I'm glad things are going well. You're on a great production course- this is really good. I'm glad you're excited about the narrative- I think there's a lot of potential there in terms of figuring out how to push how the structures change. Look up some images of organisms that reproduce asexually through budding- I think you'll find some interesting images. I know there's a lot on how medusas, or jellyfish, do this- but there's many others as well. Loads of marine organisms.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see your progress- keep up the great work!