Two more OFF THE POTS

Two new ones and some better photos of the ones from Monday.  Im showing the lumps of reclaim because I have this idea of scaling up these projects by shaving off the sides of some of the reclaim lumps and stitching three of them together to make a hollow sculpture.  I really enjoy the texture of the clay in this form and want to totally use it as a landscape ripe for planting.

Summer Projects

I have a summer project called 'Off of the Pot' which is kinda self explanatory, I'm going to do some sculpting on objects and perhaps even just encrusting encrustings which become the object themselves and make their own form.  Today I did one of the theriocephalic deities off of the pot (a cow head), as well as sculpting a small hollow object and also embellishing it with the usual flora and fauna found on the pots.  More to come, this is a project in exploring what mister Palissy called "rustiques figulines" (rustic pottery) where he would encrust the entire original surface with details, I am very into his work and really need to do some more research on him.  Here are some LQ cell phone shots.

Im thinking a golden calf and a green forest??

Pots to Paterson

All of the current pottery was moved to the old apartment with Marshall until I have a proper place to store them or have a one man show.  This is making way for the future graduate work I will create but also leave the studio more clean as well.  Below are some LQ photos of the pots at City and in New Jersey.  

An early May 2013 update

Bracket Fungus

I always called them shelf lichen or bacteria but they are bracket fungus, the forms I have made on the wheel and attached to the pots always remind me of these fungi, and I want to begin to color them more like the real deal when working with white clay.  One kind that is really gorgeous is turkey tail or "ortrametes versicolor."

Incredible!  I cant wait to begin working on these which I will try and incorporate onto the pot as well.