I have decided to go forth on a mission to make 40 or more of my new trumpetty bowl forms. They are really such fun to throw and then beat to pieces. Such fun. I’ve glazed them to look skin-like which I hope will be very seductive and a little bit weird all at once. I am aiming to run out of space in my studio (large as it is) in the next month. I am on the lookout for new beating tools… new edges, more raw, more pained. These pieces are perfect to get me in a good mood after a frustrating day at work or varsity.
I’ve also been busy with MORE CHICKEN WIRE. Using it with no gloves can be a bit of an adventure but it really is great stuff to build sculptures on. I’m making a few meter long ‘sketches’ over the chicken wire in preparation for a BIG sculpture: perhaps a figurative cow (heaven forbid I do something figurative – it has been ages). I am working through thoughts on what on earth I’m doing for the Nivea competition I’m involved with. Beauty is… is the theme- so simple and yet so complicated. I think a cow might the the answer – or at least the catalyst for this whole thing.
To jump around a bit – I have come to an important conclusion about art making just lately – you have to be all in – all the time -it’s not easy, but it’s all about passion. One has to “live the art” , to make good art to entertain a cheesy line. And I often forget – in my obsession with process that art is communicative – TELL STORIES already - even if they are abstract stories.
Trumpet detail - green.
I look forward to taking a million pics in the Eastern cape next week – oh beautiful land! Textures of aloes and reefs and rocks are the smell of the sea never cease to inspire me!
Tags: Art, cattle, ceramics, chickenwire, photos, sculpture, travel
