almost there...

funny how being stressed makes you work more effeciently...kind of. ive tied up a few things today so far...just a few more things to do befor emy assessment on monday at 11:25 am - leaves plently of time to make sure the set up is just right :)

will put up pics!

ive been playing around with my stacking this afternoon...

one of each


the little ones


the big ones

golden at last

finally...after copious amounts of trouble...little yellow cups have emerged from this kiln just this morning :) im so glad! although because of the small amount of colour to start with, they are quite thin in comparicon to the other colours, and also therefore warped a little in the kiln, but they will be ok :)

this yellow...let me tell you...was hard work. the original yellow was not 'golden' enough so i had to add little amounts of manganese dioxide...etc etc...then it was too speckly so had to be ball milled... then, for certian reasons out of my control, they were not fired to the right temperature (so the colour did not intensify enough)...but on their third go they are wonderful, im so glad i finally have them! :)

workshop

this semester for the combined workshop of ceramics/spatial construction ive been working with ideas of the other side of the domestic experience...ie the female crafts side ie crochet/sewing/knitting, and have combined aspects of this into ceramics. these vessles, which clearly cannot hold an aspect of functionality, began through experiments, and mimic the art of crochet/knitting through visual aspects as well as the physical process of making the forms :)

reminiscent

yay picies!

this body of work is about the domestic experience, more exactly mine ad my families, investigates this through the use of the Johnson Brothers main four colours. The yellow is on its way...firing as we speak actually :)

the invention of gravity

hey guys,
dont forget to check out the exhibition of selected third years from USQ, on at Attic Art Space, today is teh last day to see it...probably shoudl have given you more notice hahaha...



will post photos of my work later today...pinky swear!

the 'Domestic Experience'

so i told you that id fill you in, and that is what im doing. hehehe.

last semesters work was about nothing really, just an investigation ijto matierals, processes, form and groupings. this semster my project work has a much greater conceptual grounding. I have been looking at many things this semster, but the amin one is, my and my families personal experience in relation to the domestic. Its a long story but basically i made some experiments last semester which related to the Tableware products of the manufacturer Jonson Brothers. It turned out that we had much of this kind of stuff at home...and that id been using it constantly for many many years without realising. So this semesters work is an investigation into these ideas...about Johnson Brothers, domesticity, and the idea of how these items become invisible as objects and my 'cycle of meaning and importance': where an item is purchased and loved, and then looses this importance and any meaning that it gained, and is then (too easily) discarded, to be discovered by another who loves and will cherish the item...etc etc.

i am making a wholoe heap of small vessels, in two sizes, all in the four 'johnson colours' ie the pink, blue, green and yellow, all in differing strengths of colour, including white. These will then be displayed in all sorts of varying stacks, on descreet white shelving.

i feel that this work is much more visually and cnceptuall stronger than last semesters. even so, and taking into consideration, the step up from second year to third year, my marsk arent reflecting this, which sucks a little. i really want to be on teh top rung of the ladder, but im not quite there yet. i need to increase my knowledge an interest of my ideas and concern in a broarder contemporary art perspective.

blah blah blah.

i mean, yes, they say that my work and my work ethic etc it realely great, im just still annoyed that it isnt quite to the level that i want it, and i find that i become very frustrated, becuase i know how to get it there, i just hold myself back, with my attitude and stubborness.

that is all.

will put up pics of what ive got so far soon

xoxo
cass