In an effort to stimulate more conversation about not only my own artwork, but in ceramic arts in general i have created this blog. I hope to use this blog as a mode of critique for my own and other artwork. It is a collection of visual and verbal imagery I find stimulating.
As an introduction to my work here is a short compilation of my past work as a prelude to I have experienced in my work and the direction it is taking.
In fall 2008 I started a series of boys in David East's ceramic Surfaces class. I attempt to build romantic figures, all young men, highly decorated with china paints, glazes, and luster. Here I wanted to question the masculine by overwhelming it with the feminine. I think I took things too far. The figures are small, and are overwhelmed by the large wall space they would be placed in as well as by the surface treatment. I am interested now in the way the forms interact with the wall and with each other.
The series of footballs was made fall 2008 in Adelaide Paul's Ubiquitous Object ceramic class. I was sitting on a balcony. drinking a 40 and smoking a cigarette with a fellow queer and a straight man. the heterosexual stated, " I feel like the only man out here.", and I thought to myself about what is masculine, and what makes a man. I looked at myself and pondered what is more manly than drinking a colt 45 and smoking a fag with all your bros under the light of a full moon and a light fall rain?
yea... U_U so...
I became obsessed. I look for objects and symbols of masculinity and how I can bring my questions to my viewers. I thought of my materials(clay, glaze, and latex) and how they could aid in questioning the validity of masculinity.
As I look upon them now I notice its relations to ceramic art history and the history of porcelain. I realized the vocabulary was similar to that of faberge eggs. Does the decal imagery even need to be there? Does the porcelain question the masculinity enough through its relation to china painting, its delicacy, and its relation to craft?
yea... U_U so...
I became obsessed. I look for objects and symbols of masculinity and how I can bring my questions to my viewers. I thought of my materials(clay, glaze, and latex) and how they could aid in questioning the validity of masculinity.
As I look upon them now I notice its relations to ceramic art history and the history of porcelain. I realized the vocabulary was similar to that of faberge eggs. Does the decal imagery even need to be there? Does the porcelain question the masculinity enough through its relation to china painting, its delicacy, and its relation to craft?
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