Friday, 5 June 2020
Studio Video for #seopenstudios
A short video taken for the #SouthEastOpenStudios #seopenstudios Virtual Event; (the full version is due to follow shortly):
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
The Latest White-clay Möbius
The latest white-clay Möbius, first shown here, pre-firing.
I feel, at this stage, not quite done with this form. Not an uncommon feeling for me, that first re-engagement with what has essentially been significantly changed by the intense heat of the kiln firing, from a nurtured, soft, gentle, mellow-grey infant to a pure, radiant white gently assertive form.
I'm not precisely sure why at present, but this sense of unfinishedness has something to do with how the white clay has fired: there is a lot of clay/ceramic substance here (much more so than with the Form-Finding pieces [click on Form Finding in the Series/Themes menu on the right of the screen], which are more complex forms with more negative spaces) and the surface varies slightly in burnish, leaving an unevenness in radiance.
The form itself works well, the Möbius journey round and in-and-out flows nicely; not as simple, straightforward a journey as the simple Möbius band, but then this is a progression from that; a more sculpturally complex form.
I feel, at this stage, not quite done with this form. Not an uncommon feeling for me, that first re-engagement with what has essentially been significantly changed by the intense heat of the kiln firing, from a nurtured, soft, gentle, mellow-grey infant to a pure, radiant white gently assertive form.
I'm not precisely sure why at present, but this sense of unfinishedness has something to do with how the white clay has fired: there is a lot of clay/ceramic substance here (much more so than with the Form-Finding pieces [click on Form Finding in the Series/Themes menu on the right of the screen], which are more complex forms with more negative spaces) and the surface varies slightly in burnish, leaving an unevenness in radiance.
The form itself works well, the Möbius journey round and in-and-out flows nicely; not as simple, straightforward a journey as the simple Möbius band, but then this is a progression from that; a more sculpturally complex form.
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