Looking back on the initial blog entry I’m now wondering whether The Museum of Space Exploration is just a mere ‘conceit’. Definitions include:/ a fanciful thought or idea/an extravagant fanciful and elaborate construction or/ the result of intellectual activity. Seesaw the other way and it is ‘writing the object’.
Yet where has this conceit led me…away from being stuck with the idea of subverting Michael Craig-Martin’s glass of water by turning it over (no oak tree either) to a future archaeological display that includes vessels, some of which are turned upside down!
I have now thrown, turned and burnished 30 and am waiting until they are all fired for the first time before firing them in a sawdust kiln. I have since learnt that they will be fragile and some may break in the process but I can use these in the photography expedition. A selection of those that remain will be displayed on an open plinth so that people can touch them although perhaps they won’t.
“The vessel inhabits rich liminal territory of uncertainty and abstraction” (ref New Approaches to Ceramics P12). Yes please!
Sand blasting a couple of cylinders has produced a different finish – one that is neither glazed nor unglazed, perhaps a good surface for a linoprint?
I took part in a 29 Feb book art project this week by sending a photo of my location (out of a window or a door) together with what I was doing at 12 noon on that day. In the ceramic studio.
