i have been going back to some sculptural work lately, so here are some photos of my work with clay and wire and wiremesh...you can just see a bit of the mesh in the lower right with yellow clay. and there is wire mesh in the back triangular shape, which was then formed around a wire shape-- an open pod sort of thing... some wire is stiff and i wanted to see how the clay would do when the wire was manipulated with the clay around it... i am pleased and will use the idea in new work...
also using forms to hold the clay so that wire can be embedded...this plaster form was made around some blister plastic that a light came in.... the clay pops right out, but i thought to leave it in for this photo...
here is a form made around a light bulb which was broken and the pieces removed carefully!the wire stand will become part of the sculpture, which sort of looks like a cement mixer to me, interesting since i also do cement art sculpture...
here are two pinch pots. the yellow one was closed and then the top was pulled into the neck and the spout. it is however, closed but the bottom is hollow.the other is pinched up to height and then the top was fluted into a nice shape.
i have also been playing with coiled forms, at first just keeping to more normal ways to coil... but i will also be going into more abstract shapes with coils. and playing with coils that are very uneven in thickness...
here are some slab triangular shapes that i have been putting together in various ways, these are hinged with tiny piano hinges--the large triangles; and tiny regular butt hinges--the small trianglesi have also been doing some surface treatments... carving and backfilling, making some ooak beads, and seeing what i can do with the various liquid clays...
come back soon to see them.....
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