To Flatter:

These are a few images from my Senior Show in Nov.

Its called "To Flatter:"

It was held in the gallery at our University. Its called the "back room" gallery. Its called this because it is located right off the main gallery space.

I was super excited to show my work in this space because in the "main" gallery space was a Ceramics show by Erin Furimsky.

I love her work and admire her!

I feel so lucky and honored to show in a space even NEAR her work.

(pics of her show soon)

It makes me that much more aware that THIS is what I want to do with the rest of my life...to be an artist.....to make for myself and to just be happy.

View of the gallery space.

Senior Show Progress.

My work has completely changed from what I was doing in Aug.

Why did my work change? It changed because my life changed completely and because of that the way I looked at my work changed. I became less uptight and proper. I "jumped off the cliff" and let myself go. Caring too much can hinder ones thought process.

Its almost Dec! Holy Moly

I've already had my senior show. It was pretty successful. I received alot of great feedback from many people.

Here are a few shots of the peices in progress. (green and bisque)

I've completely let symmetry go and focused on the movement of the clay in my hands whilst throwing. The "puff" forms are inhabiting the vessels and function is no longer available.

Soft Palette

individual photos of my cone six exploration.

NY state of mind

I went to a quick 5 day trip to the East coast to see the family and HAD to get away and see some art in NY.

I went to The Museum of Art and Design(MAD) and absolutely loved it. They have some throwback pottery from Rudy Audio, Betty Woodman.

They have an exhibit up now called "Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics".

My background is hand thrown pottery and to see all slip casted pots with decals/luster and alternative materials made my heart skip a beat.

Everything that I thought I knew went out the 5th story window.

Only sad part was....NO photography. I couldnt take photos of anything. U_U

All I have is this webpage.

Take a look!

http://collections.madmuseum.org/html/exhibitions/472.html

Cone 6 Adventure

This is my first (offical) start of my cone 6 journey.
The soft palette is growing on me.

Working through some more

Slips are on and bowls are in place.

Finished slip detail. My poor fingers hurt from slip trailing.

POLKA DOTS.

Next up is my cup "ecosystem" try out.
This is just me working out ideas that were in my head.

Working through

I had an idea .....at 4 in the am one night/morning. I had to jump out of bed and draw, draw, draw my ideas out of my head so I could be able to sleep. My thoughts were of a "Functional Ecosystem" ....(thanks Bio class) Quirky fuctional ware amist a world of their own.

Or something like that.

So here is the first proto-type.

Two bowls are sitting on their hill.

I've been inspired by Rebekah Bogard's mystical world of fantasy creatures and plants.

Other side

Top view

I've also been working on some cone 06 glaze testing.