Porcelain

head pieces research

krista  Grecco ''THE AMBIVALENCE OF BEING''

Ivan Albreht- ''stack''

Christy Keeney

We had a visit from irish ceramic sculpture Christy keeney

who showed us how his way of making head pieces.
He placed his slabs into a mould and cut around the edges to fit .

He used a heat gun to dry the slabs saving time.

He scored the edges of the pieces where they were going to be joined together.

When the pieces are dry enough he attempted to lift the sides

he put slip around the edges.

carefully he stuck the two slabs together.

Putting the two slabs together. making sure they're connected properly.

Shape your piece and create it into a head/face.

Some of Christy's work.

''cello player''

The finished piece.

portrait of the artist with horses head

Lips

some of my ideas..

i want to use bright viberant colours like the ones used here.

mosaic lips

 I want to base my project on on key aspect of gossip which is lips. Lips to tell lips to share lips to spread rumours etc. I want it to have a strong message and for people to understand but i also want to have other aspect to it.:
web of lies

grain of truth

white lies

green with envy

black hole

two faced

I want each piece to have its own background story

I'm going to use a broken teabag to represent my grain of truth, i will set up my piece so the grains are trailing across the scene. I want to use the web of lies as a design aspect of it, maybe have cobwebs or entanglements on my pieces. For the white lies i'm going to leave part of one of the cups white and write with white on top of it so that the viewer has to search for what it reads. Each of my cups will have a character. Two faced or green with envy. I don't have it totally figured out but thats the direction i'm going in.

Development to tea sets.

Elena Trepakova

Peter Shire -Marbelized teapot

Wu Ruichen -worlds smallest teapot

Robbie Bell ''when the fat lady sings''

I first was looking at expression and the reactions of one when lying. I wanted to focus on making the main signs of deception. Evil grin, whispered gossip, hurtful smile, entangled story.
I went on from my research into expression and lies and ended up looking farther into gossip, a very intriguing form of lying. It deals with a malicious type of lie, the exageration/embellishment of a story. I really want to bring that evil type of gossiping into my piece.
From there I thought of ideas for my narrative and a few different thing crossed my mind,, but i went with a tea set/ tea party. Typical social gathering for a gossiping session. I then went to look at different types of tea sets..

Funny faces!!

Some pieces i looked at, i want my pieces to have character. I thought these pieces were very entertaining and had a story behind them. I want my pieces to have that quality.

The narative project.. ceramics.
i'm basing my narrative project on ''lies''.
web of lies, spiders, spining out of cortrol, entangled, i want to look at human expresion and emotion when lying.