17.12.21

I created my third coil pot and attempted to create the exaggerated tall spouts but I couldn't workout how to create them with coiling or slabbing and as the clay was hardening I scrapped the idea and created something that mixed the first two pots together that I am still extremely happy with. I still plan to make the tall spouted piece after the holidays but will use the extruded pipes as the spouts. I plan to incorporate the twine into these vessels somehow as a way to link the twine and ceramic elements but i'm not certain how just yet. I've also been thinking about display ideas for my exhibition as it was the only useful feedback I got from my crits. I like the idea of having the contrast in the display of the work by using found objects alongside my made objects as well as using unpainted plywood plinths to bring forward this idea of contradiction. Contradiction between modern and historic, meaningful and meaningless, spiritual and material. 

As I have been working on a 'show-notes' element for my exhibition which I initially planned on having on paper I'd hand out but I feel I want it to make it more of a feature and as I've dabbled in fabric books before and am a huge fan of Louise Bourgeois 'Ode á La Bievre' and 'Ode a L'oubli' I want to create a roughly A3 book that visitors will be able to flick through to see a visualisation of my references. I want the book to be a mixture of sewing, image transfer, dyeing and collage.

Louise Bourgeois 'Ode á L'oubli' 2004

Louise Bourgeois

Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and print-maker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.

Louise Bourgeois 'Ode á L'oubli (detail)' 2004