.Artistic
Oh, and this, too- PICTURES!
French Literature in Translation Monster Project:
Create a Monster: Mine? My Muse.
Made from a collection of fiber and RC paper, archival and non-archival materials, red mount board, black and white and color negatives.
...and you can clip the hand up, to see...
And then you can flip the whole thing open to see:
Top:
Bottom:
Ceramics I:
Four cups, four mugs, four bowls, a starfish, a kilt (body part- the arse) and a piece called "Metamorphosis"
Cups:
Mugs:
Bowls:
(that's the low-fired one, with iron oxide stain)
Details:
Stoneware, thrown on the wheel, high fired, glazed in various colors. Some have stains. One bowl is low-fired.
Starfish:
Details:
Earthenware, underglaze with glossy glaze, low-fired. Hand-built (pinch method).
Pog Mo Thoin! (Gaelic: Kiss my ass!)
Details:
Earthenware, underglaze with glossy glaze, low fired. Hand built (pinch, slab method).
The assignment was to built a body part for a single figure. Everyone drew a part out of a hat. I got the arse, naturally. By default, I was partnered with the girl who got the front/pelvis. She made an elephant trunk. More pictures of the whole thing coming later... they seem to have disappeared on me...
"Metamorphosis"
Details:
Earthenware, two kinds of glaze only (soda blue and antiqued brass), low fired. Hand built (pinch, slab and coil).
It was a four part assignment. First, we made a perfect cone, via the coil method, then we made a perfect sphere, via the pinch method and lastly we made a cube via the slab method. We made them absolutely perfect, to get the techniques down. Then we hacked them to bits and made a sculpture out of all the parts. The only extra clay we could use was to bond pieces together. We could glaze it in two colors, only.
Ted (my professor) asked me where the sphere was. I replied, "Everywhere." It was true- it ended up in the most pieces. Turned out wicked cool, though. I called it "Metamorphosis" because it's got harsh and soft lines, curves and hard edges. It's like it's transforming into... something.
And a Gallery shot, with our class's stuff in it:
And... la pièce de résistance...
Romancing Lace:
The images don't show the prints themselves much, but that will come later. These are from when I put them up in Maggies, our on-campus coffee house, for a showing.
Details:
11x14 black and white selenium toned prints on Ilford multi-grade fiber paper, mounted on 11x14 mat boards (to be flat) and then second-mounted onto a 16x20 board covered with red organza fabric. Taken with my Nikon N70 with Kodak T-Max 400 Professional Black and White film. Film and prints developed by hand.
