reminiscing

Photos from the summer of 2012
Inspires me for summer '13.

Ceramics II

Yesterday was our last ceramics class!  I'm sad it's over because I loved that class, and would have also liked to just have several more weeks where I could continue working.  Critique went well, and it helped me think more about my idea for senior seminar.

My snail in open house, in the main gallery

My deer.  At first I wanted to not have any glaze/paint on him, so I could project some sort of scene, picture of video, like a meadow and etc.  But then I decided I wanted to use him for my senior project, and glazed him accordingly.  I still need to add gold colored paint to the broken parts and that includes where the antlers will go because I've decided not to attach them.

 Here is a crappy photo of everything I made this semester.

For the most part I'm quite content with everything I made.  I do wish sometimes that I made other things instead, but hopefully I'll be able to make everything I want.
I hope that I get to make a lot of new pieces this summer!

Sculpture Show

From February 4 -15th, my school a sculpture show of student work.  One of my ceramic pieces, Canyon, were selected to be on display.  This is a raku piece that was inspired by the Grand Canyon.

This is a picture from the show

Image of each side

Update

Recently, I have come to a conclusion.  I'm interested in exploring the comparability between sleep and death.  Sleep is an imperfect fulfillment of death, nature's prophecy of the future death.  I think I will continue in this direction, and it will be my focus for my senior thesis.

 My first project in ceramics class; a snail, with lots of foliage and other plant-like forms that grew out/on the snail's shell.  I wanted to completely cover the shell, but ran out of time.

Our 2nd project was about expanding out idea from the 1st project.  Since I want to further investigate the relation ships between sleep and death I'm making a sleeping deer, and on it's antlers there will be all the plants growing off of them.  

For now, this as far as I've gotten, I will make another post, once I'm finished.

In my glass class, we are making 3D objects, and I decided to make a sleeping bunny.  Which kinda could almost look like a dead bunny.....

When we were making the mold, and we splattered some plaster over it, it looked really beautiful to me. It feels very quiet and almost surreal.

Death & Sleep