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  1. Getting excited for NCECA!!!

  2. Considering postponing grad school another year :(

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    2. Evelyne Schoenmann

      Evelyne Schoenmann

      I would reflect on your consideration some more. If possible, do grad school now, spring!

    3. Marcia Selsor

      Marcia Selsor

      why would you postpone?

    4. spring

      spring

      portfolio isn't ready

  3. From the album: Sample Work

    10"x9"x7" 2011 Porcelain Cone 6, multiple firings I saw a video on double walled pots and thought that it looked like a lot of fun so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I did some searches on etsy and youtube to see what people made and for the most part I was unimpressed. Most were too thick and chunky and the carving was geometric and kinda boring, I figured I could learn from their mistakes. I love lotus flowers so I decided to do this kinda underwater scene. I wanted to play with the different elemnets that are provided, so placing the carved fish as a kind of middle ground would strengthen the foreground and background.
  4. spring

    Sample Work

    This is a sampling of work that I have done in 2011
  5. spring

    Passage

    From the album: Sample Work

    The concept for Passage is based on climate, and more specifically bringing the scope of climate within the personal scale. I wanted to create something that offered the viewer a unique experience in person which has been one of the challenges of representing it in pictures. Each individual feather is able to move and in mass, this movement creates sound. Seemingly simple, there are a total of about 4000 pieces, each of varying size and strategically placed to create a sense of dept, currents, and the complexity of global climactic systems. Another thing I set out to accomplish was to create something that is atypical to what is commonly periceived as clay. For the lay public who are not often in contact with contemporary ceramics, I think the general thought is to associate it with a more historical or utilitarian use. For myself, clay is not just a material but more of an old friend. When each piece is finished, it feels like we are able to have a conversation.
  6. From the album: Sample Work

    80"x30"x10" 2011 porcelain, wire, foam, epoxy Cone 9 oxidation
  7. From the album: Sample Work

    80"x30"x10" 2011 porcelain, wire, foam, epoxy Cone 9 oxidation
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    Blossom

    From the album: Sample Work

    12"x10"x10" 2011 porcelain, wire, epoxy, foam cone 9 oxidation The foundation of the pieces in my Wind series consist of these very small, paper thin pieces of colored clay that are glued on to wire. I call them feathers for lack of a better term but they are often associated with leaves, seeds, and petals. Wanting to work on a smaller scale, incorporate a back light to increase the translucency, and play with color, and I came up with Blossom. Since the construction of each petal is the same there is still the same movement and sound create with the introduction of air flow (wind) but just on a smaller scale. Altogether there are several hundred petals used to create it. Currently, I am working on a whole wall of different size, shaped, color mixes, and sized petals, with light still playing a key role. Incorporated in the idea of the variety is, as always, the delicacy of nature.
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    Casscade

    From the album: Sample Work

    24"x9"x8" 2011 porcelain, wire, foamcore, epoxy Cone 9 oxidation This is part on my Wind Series. I'm essientially just playing with format, light, and color. I was trying to capture movement in a much smaller area. In the piece Passage, I had a much larger area to work with creating movement and flow, but it is difficult to create so many pieces just to do that. I was hoping to be able to do it with a few hundred instead of a fiew thousand.
  10. From the album: Sample Work

    32"x24"x18" cone 04 multiple firings 2010 Tackling the human figure, especially the face, seemed like a guareented fail. I thought of it as this really hard thing that I would only be able to do after years of practice. Then I had an assignment that required me to take a historical form and recreate it in a conemtorary context and I thought of George. My background in archeology had led me to reasearch on Tang Dynasty ceramics. It is a time period I am very familiar with including their vocabulary of form. During this period, tomb guardians were common and consisted of two main types, the warrior and the disfigured, grotesque "demon". Both were used to ward off evil spirits and their specific details were reflective of the cultures values and ethnic clashes. I choose George Bush not only because he was/is such a polarizing figure but also, much like the originall tomb guardians of the time, represented comentary on how he embodied an ideology that was distrusted and how stupidity can truely be scary.
  11. From the album: Sample Work

    32"x24"x18" cone 04 multiple firings 2010
  12. From the album: Sample Work

    32"x24"x18" Cone 04, multiple firings 2010
  13. I saw a video on double walled pots and thought that it looked like a lot of fun so I thought I'd give it a whirl. I did some searches on etsy and youtube to see what people made and for the most part I was unimpressed. Most were too thick and chunky and the carving was geometric and kinda boring, I figured I could learn from their mistakes. I love lotus flowers so I decided to do this kinda underwater scene. I wanted to play with the different elemnets that are provided, so placing the carved fish as a kind of middle ground would strengthen the foreground and background.
  14. spring

    blossom

    Thanks Marcia. I add mason stains to southern ice porcelain. Each piece is rolled out by hand twice so it's transparent and also cut twice. They are fired to cone 9 oxidation. I insert them into styrofoam that has been hollowed out. I add flameless tealights inside.
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