Surprises
It is amazing what can be rendered boring
Today I sat above the quilted flatscape of my country
And moved between the rosy fingers of the dawn
But it was not an adventure
It was tedium.
self censorship
i do it a lot and have never enjoyed it, but never hated it as much as just now.
I had a group show with 2 other students who were finishing at ANU the same time as me. These are most of my stuff from the show.
BETH CAVENER STICHTER
woah
Beth Cavener Stichter = super awesome. god damn…
For the second generation I started experimenting with throwing them on the wheel then altering them. I didn’t document the process, unfortunately, but these are some results. cone 10, reduction.
So this is the first generation marching off to be bisqued then all set for glaze tests of various sorts (magnesium crawl glazes that didn’t really work).
The last two are what they looked like fired to cone 10 reduction.
Eva Funderburgh being her usual awesome self
Damnations, what is the point of doing ceramics with people like this around??
Getting up to date part 2.
Here I’ve started using my coloured clay. The ‘cups’ are laminated with a clay coloured with a combination of cobalt and chrome, the long pourers also are laminated with that clay and another coloured with copper carbonate.
laminating is fairly easy you prepare your main body of clay for tossing into a slab then you press a thin slab of the coloured clay onto the top of it, then make your slab more or less as you normally would. The laminated bit will tear if it is thin, this can often give quite interesting effect.
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