Its All Gone To Pot!

I'm in the middle of my Ceramics elective and everything that has gone wrong with my mould-making has gone wrong! I've had more slip and plaster on the floor than in my work, it seems. I really think MA Digital Arts is the way to go after this BA. Things might go wrong and be unrecoverable in my projects, but at least I wont be spending hours cleaning up and be walking around like the Homepride Flour Man!

I really hoped to be able to make lots of near-identical objects using the mould-process, I wanted to make an installation in a sort of Donald Judd type stick coloured objects around a space way... something consumerist/industrial/beautiful. Then the tutor lent me a couple of books on Piet Stockmans and it became clear that my ideas of the sublime represented by the mundane actually weren't that misconcieved and crazy.. so the tutors and technicians who think me making the same bottle-shaped object over and over again is boring and dull clearly are just on a different wavelength.. maybe thinking the object in itself is more precious than the repeated object. That said, most ceramicists end up making multiples for things like dinner sets and Stockmans installations have taken muliplicity to an artform. (Multiplicity.. is that a word? My inner thesaurus is not so reliable today!)















NOT MY WORK.. UNFORTUNATELY..