Spring 2010 Work

In Spring Quarter 2010, I was coming out of Mold Making studio and going into Advanced Ceramics.

In the first three photos, I made a mold of a ball and 2 diamonds and explored how something can take over an object. I slip cast 6 balls and covered them with varying amounts of large and small diamonds. I glazed them with cone 6 never fail clear + pea green/ sky blue mason stains, and cone 6 satin silver gray.

The next photos are of a continuing piece from Mold Making Studio Winter Quarter 2010. I chiseled the form out of a plaster cube and finally figured out the crazy mother mold during Spring 2010. I cast the forms and glazed them in a cone 6 neverfail clear + pea green, matte blue, and glossy red.

First Blog Post...EVER

This may be a longshot for me trying to keep this thing regularly updated, but I wanted to give an insight as to what exactly it is that I do with my artwork and my time at UC.

This is my most recent work from Autumn Quarter 2010.

The stacking of the clay slabs is based on cairns, or rock stacks found in nature. There are many stories of cairns from different areas of the world, but the one I found most intriguing is one in which hikers will take a rock from the bottom of the hill they are hiking, then when they come across a cairn they will drop their rock onto the stack and the cairn becomes a sort of "community" project created by hikers. The cairns usually take on a conical, or tension-y shape and that is what I tried to emulate with the clay slabs.

Pictures with glazes will come soon!

Cairns1,2, & 3

8", 11", & 14"

Cone 6 clay

Fall 2010