2x4s are symbolic of home construction and represent building. The sight of a home substructure is a story about individuality, growth, future, and security. A symbol of the American dream. My proposal is to make 8ft slip-cast porcelain 2x4s to erect a building. The shift in materiality, from wood to porcelain, makes a dense, strong, rigid, lasting, and resistant structure that is also fragile, inflexible, and compromising. The porcelain substructure will be a sculpture representing cultural strength and fragility that is a snapshot of past and present which questions the future. The facilities and knowledge of large scale porcelain manufacturing accessible through the Arts/Industry Residency will facilitate the experimentation necessary for creation of this large scale sculpture.
I have been thinking about my proposal for the Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency, and wanted to share the project.
2x4s are symbolic of home construction and represent building. The sight of a home substructure is a story about individuality, growth, future, and security. A symbol of the American dream. My proposal is to make 8ft slip-cast porcelain 2x4s to erect a building. The shift in materiality, from wood to porcelain, makes a dense, strong, rigid, lasting, and resistant structure that is also fragile, inflexible, and compromising. The porcelain substructure will be a sculpture representing cultural strength and fragility that is a snapshot of past and present which questions the future. The facilities and knowledge of large scale porcelain manufacturing accessible through the Arts/Industry Residency will facilitate the experimentation necessary for creation of this large scale sculpture.
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I had some time and made some new pieces and they are in the bisque as i type. They will be placed in a soda kiln Monday and after some assembly and testing i will post photos up.
A hint for what is coming, one piece involves Baghdad batteries. Here is a link for some quick info on these mysterious objects. If yo Just sent some tools to John Thies at the Manabigama Pottery Center. John's students observed the tools in action and wanted to purchase! Its a win win situation.
Here are some photos of my work that came out of the inaugural firing of John Thies's Salt Wood Manabigama! They look beautiful and can't wait to see them.
So my first incarnation of Backhoe bucket Ladles. There are more and will be wood fired in a few days and when they are done I will post photos with the handles! There is another project that will be done in a few days also that has caught my interest also.
Just started some smaller pieces that will be fired in a wood kiln in Minneapolis! They have to be done by Monday to go into the kiln, then some metal work has to be done. Excitement.
Future kickstarter project is underway! That's all i will say now about it but I will post a link if it gets taken up by kickstarter. Lets hope it does...or i will have to delay the project until i have the funds.
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