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Between 1993 and 1997 I spent a portion of my time making ceramics. The work is chronological beginning with the "low fire" gallery and continuing with the "high fire" gallery. The ceramics were done at the same time as:
Transitions
3 (1993-95)
Paper Plates (1994) - not posted (2005)
Cloud
and Water (1995-97)
Black
and White (1996)
I began in my own studio with hand built sculptures which, after drying, were fired in a slip cast pottery hobby shop in low fire bisque. I made pinch pots, coil pots, and slab pots (clay slabbed on my litho press). Later, I enrolled in a pottery studio at the local community centre. There I learned to turn pots on an electric powered wheel and how to use a commercial clay slab press.
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Much earlier, while attending university, I studied pottery in art history. I had become accomplished defining the dynasty and dates of Chinese ceramics.
More recently while studying Greek pottery painting in my classical series, Iliad; I have noticed that pots, because they cannot be seen all at once must be picked up, held, and turned by hand are an animation medium. In our multimedia translation of Homer's Iliad I have used a reference to the animation of pottery figures in Book 14 and Book 21. |
