06.12.21

There is common theme of travel/movement within the objects I'm choosing to reference so I want to build upon it to see where it takes me. I want to incorporate a recording of travel/movement somehow into my work and I think I will use a contemporary interpretation of a wax tablet to do this. I want to create my own either in ceramic or cast aluminium with reference to the forms I was playing with in the summer and use a soy wax layer as the writing surface. I'm still developing ideas on what the method of recording will be but that's something I can develop when I've created the tablets. 

Previously I was surrounding my work around the idea of gestalt but it's not resonating with the work as much as I thought it would. I still want to work with pairing of ideas/elements but with less of a focus on creating a single work of lots of elements. I want to create a space filled with my objects and ideas more in the lane of my second year clay work and less like my practice setups. I'm going to focus on the individual and go back to how it will work together further along.

Wax Writing Tablet 500-700AD

Wax Writing Tablets

A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych. It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in Antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. Cicero's letters make passing reference to the use of 'cerae', and some examples of wax-tablets have been preserved in waterlogged deposits in the Roman fort at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall.