Unfortunately the lousy quality of this image really does not do this five-paneled tile piece justice, as the depth is completely indiscernible. The chance processes in relation to ceramics are much more visceral than in the more abstract realm of screen printing, given the physicality and plasticity of the material. I attempted to take advantage this characteristic while executing this work. I assembled a small tray of various sized porcelain spheres I rolled and fired to harden. Thin porcelain tiles were rolled out and cut, and each tile was dropped from a height of a few feet atop the spheres, the still-plastic tile registering the impact. The tiles were then dried, sprayed with colored slip from the side to accentuate the bulbous forms, and mounted. There were many variables set up to arrive at this end object - the layout of the spheres, the color, direction of mounting, height of mounting, etc. I still have notebooks full of incomprehensible rows of numbers which are essentially the raw "code" from which this work came to be. Dimensions variable depending on mounting, but about 48x48x6".Thursday, April 26, 2007
Untitled - porcelain tile, colored slip, mdf, acrylic
Unfortunately the lousy quality of this image really does not do this five-paneled tile piece justice, as the depth is completely indiscernible. The chance processes in relation to ceramics are much more visceral than in the more abstract realm of screen printing, given the physicality and plasticity of the material. I attempted to take advantage this characteristic while executing this work. I assembled a small tray of various sized porcelain spheres I rolled and fired to harden. Thin porcelain tiles were rolled out and cut, and each tile was dropped from a height of a few feet atop the spheres, the still-plastic tile registering the impact. The tiles were then dried, sprayed with colored slip from the side to accentuate the bulbous forms, and mounted. There were many variables set up to arrive at this end object - the layout of the spheres, the color, direction of mounting, height of mounting, etc. I still have notebooks full of incomprehensible rows of numbers which are essentially the raw "code" from which this work came to be. Dimensions variable depending on mounting, but about 48x48x6".
