SALT AND PEPPER PROJECT

For this project I picked the hook and eye clasp. 

PAPER TO CLAY

exploring folds that i had seen in the paper

My object for this project was a garden glove.    I first made quck glove to get my head around it then I was going to do paper mache and I started building the glove but the piece looked interesting so I didn't go with the paper mache and thought I would translate the piece as best I would in clay.   This proved to be very difficult as the clay kept falling apart.   I then decided to use paper porcelain.   This was a very interesting process.  Really enjoyed using this.   While it took a good while to get it to work I eventually learnt how to manage the paper clay.   Learnt a lot about the whole process.   Firing proved to be difficult as well as the pieces did collapse.    I also tried to tanslate into clay my original paper glove and decorated this with ceramic pencil.   With the paper porcelain I didn't use any colour as the porcelain looked impressive in the white.

Historical object

Finished pieces.

Historical Object

Chinese urn from the British Museum

One of the forms that I now using ceramic pencils to decorate

Samples of my test glazes



After doing many test tiles I came up with some colours that appealed to me

A glaze that I got down in Thomastown

Historical object.

My historical object was a a very rare chinese urn dating back to the Tang Dynisty.  The piece had many aspect to it.   The top of the piece has a phoenix head which represented the female and in later years the Emporess. In the body of the jug was details inlay of the lotus flower.    After much consternation and exploring I found that I was drawn to the female aspect of the peice and would try and create a piece with with this in mind.   I started off by doing a lot of throwing on the wheel of different shapes.    What  I did then was assemble these pieces together to create both a functional piece (as the original piece would have been a funcation piece) and a form that would or could be preceiced as a female form.   Above you can see some of the original forms which I threw.  I subsequently glazed them and also used ceramic pencils to explore colour.