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Pinch PotThe inspiration for my pinch pot was the illusion of Earth splitting open in half and hell erupting onto the surface. Overall, to signify 2020 and everything that has gone wrong the past eight/nine months. I created my piece by pinching out two equivalent sized pots, scoring and slipping them together, cutting a slit down the middle, pulling it open, smoothing everything, and scoring and slipping big spikes both on the inside and outside of my pot. I really enjoy my piece, because of the movement I was attempting to portray (the earth splitting open), the texture of burning lava carving its way through the sides of the earth, and the variety of lakes and oceans carved into the surface of the pot.
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Coil PotThe inspiration for my coil pot was a tribute to water. Water makes up pretty much everything in life, and I resonate strongly with the ocean. I also really enjoyed Avatar the Last Airbender and wanted to incorporate the symbol for the water tribes in my piece. With this, I crafted a slab base shaped in a raindrop, added several layers of coils to give the piece height, and added three large swirls to the front of the drop and small balls descending in size leading up to the point. I enjoyed this piece because of the intentional shape and its meaning, the emphasis placed on the three swirls, and the (somewhat) pattern of the spheres.
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Slab PotThis was my favorite piece from the quarter because of its personalized meaning. I wanted to create something that I would keep for the rest of my life. Thus, it felt justified to make an open-topped box with my slabs. The inspiration behind this piece was my love for the sun and moon. Rather, the contrast between the two. One of the longer sides had scenery of a moon, clouds, and stars, while the other long side had a simpler sun, clouds, and two birds. I scored and slipped the moon, sun, and clouds on the pot. I carved in the stars, constellation, and birds. On the smaller sides, each had two clouds. One of the sides had a memento from the tattoo I gave myself, a balloon carved in. The other had lightning and wind patterns carved in. I really love this piece for the use of variety in the different carvings, the balance between lightness and darkness, and the unity of the similar style of clouds that made the piece become congruent.
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Tripod MugAhh, the mug project. This one almost made me lose my sanity. Originally, my mug was an intricate tree pattern; stumpy, with a nice big knot, and tree bark carved in all through the outside. Well, it broke. Thus, I had to improvise. Starting from scratch the same day it was due, I hustled with the idea of a tripod mug monster. I rolled out a coil, found the shape of a container I thought had a good diameter, put a piece of paper in between the slab and the container, let it dry for a bit, scored and slipped it together, created the tripod, and began to decorate. For decoration, I used a new method, slip-pipette. I scored and slipped the large eye, smile, and fangs on. The rest was all from the pipette. I made a unibrow out of slip, let it dry for a bit, and went around to choose focal points to make little wart-like textures on the mug. I went back and shaped the unibrow with my pin tool, stabbed a hole in the eye for his pupil, and attached the handle. I enjoyed this piece in the end because of its use of proportion in the legs to make him look stubby, the texture that the slip-warts made, and well, honestly, the resilience it took.
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