Ceramics And Art Education in Japan.
This blog is the journal of my travels in Japan. I came to Japan to learn about how traditional and contemporary artist learn. I would do this by (1) working with a ceramic artist to learn about any one aspect of Japanese traditional ceramics art, and (2) to interview artists about their own learning experiences.
Joined the TC clay community again to re acquaint myself with the medium, here are the projects I am currently working on along with others at home.
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Still working on Pinch pots. something I haven’t stopped exploring through the last 7-8 years, whenever I teach clay, I seem to walk around the room with a small ball of clay just fashioning it in any way, more unconsciously than anything else, now I return to it, first time since 2006 and I’m thinking about ‘pinch pots’ as an art form in itself.
After watching a you tube video on Lee Kang-hyo ‘Onggi Master’ – film about a Korean potter, I’m building large handmade pots. This is the first one, complete, in green stage. I have begun the second one and will post that one soon.
“With these vessels, I’m exploring the relationship between the spine that curves around the form and the shape underneath. Making the spine stronger or just a dent on the surface, embodying them with their own composition that might be uneven and moving against the symmetrical...
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background="#bababa"][vc_column][vc_column_text]“With these vessels, I’m exploring the relationship between the spine that curves around the form and the shape underneath. Making the spine stronger or just a dent on the surface, embodying them with their own composition that might...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]When I began creating ‘Color Studies in Yellow’ using encaustics, I was imitating my daughter’s exploration with finger-painting at age eighteen months. I had filmed her scooping globs of fingerpaint with her hands and stopped for...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="19488" img_size="large" add_caption="yes" alignment="center" qode_css_animation=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Every few years I try to relearn my materials and the language paint and colors from a new perspective. How well do I know y...
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In 2015-16 I've been playing with shapes that allowed me to move from hand building to throwing easier than before. One of my first exercises with Frank Mason's painting class at the Art Students League of NY, drawing the egg over and over again. A large hand...
March 2016 Series started in (September 2015) with sketches of a wood screw. Some of the pieces are about finding a balance between the underlying form and the “teeth” of the spiral. Both parts of the vessel's shape are equally important to the whole, to bring...
Ceramics from this last month. Been working on two series: (1) a body of vessels I call the ‘earth’ series, based on memories of the land, ground, and earth in India, particularly Northern Bihar, India, and Muzafferpur. I first moved here from England when I was...
4/20/15 more and more my pinch pots are resembling small Japanese tea cups - something about their form, the roundness and size extend the shape of your hands cupped, and fit perfectly to hold the just amount of hot tea or coffee that will warm one...
after sitting around creating pinched pots for days and not being happy with any of them I found use of them as experiments in staining after bisque in water with some pigments. Initially I tired using two pigments, yellow ochre and iron oxide, both became...
This series of photos show the development of a bowl from green stage through glazing and final product. I did this to record what the piece looked like when I first made it, with the clay dark brown as I worked with it, once it...
… to being with, there is shape. the recent set of pinch pots helped me experiment with the surface texture. I began smearing slip on the surface of a hard clay pot, fast drying the outside with a hot-air gun while keeping the inside moist, and then pushing from...
worked on sea urchin - pinch pot, change it by adding a feminine neck, took the thorns up the neck, around the lip and inside the form. Next, began twisting the thorns on themselves, rising, falling and moving in all directions. I’m happy with it...
My first onggi pot was a challenge it working with the materials at this size. My kiln limitations were set at 26 inches height, but still the weight of the pot wet, carrying it back and forth from theThe infertile skin pores wharf microbes and...
