Today I embarked on one of my last truly “new” objectives in ceramics, sculpture. Part of the ceramics curriculum for this semester is wheel thrown sculptural forms. I have never done anything for the sake of sculpture, I have always done functional forms. The assignment is a series of 6 serial sculptures, of at least 12 inches in height, showing a progression or consistent changing theme. I have chosen to do a series of sculptural pieces that reflect my resistance to sculpture, as well as my transition to accepting it. The first and middle (i think) pieces were finished today. The forms are fairly refined for the first piece, appearing as a pile of wheel thrown forms, with very little manipulation. The middle piece (the only other one i did today) is similar in its keeping to good form, but is a little more loose with some wheel modifications (dragging to create warping, etc).
The form is roughly specified now as (bottom to top):
Large Bowl
Large Cylinder
Small Bowl (inverted)
Medium Bowl
Small Cylinder
Medium Sphere
Small Sphere
Hello again Curtis,
I see why you’ve withheld your e-mail addr – spam and such, and won’t expect you to post this, as I surprised at the time & have to be at the office in 3.5 hours from now. Happy belated birthday btw, I am glad you are still around. If you respond to my gmail yahoo or my myspace, we can talk more if you like. My main pic shows my closest friend Jose (but he prefers to be called Nick by everybody else – he is also an ex of mine from 7-8 years ago – he just turned 26. Next to Jose is my son Chris who is 18.5 yrs, lives with his mom in PA, but is much closer to me in the logic & much more that we share. Then I am on the other side of Chris – as Jose and I have just prepared to take my son to his first gay club, while he was visiting me here in Tallahassee, FL.
I happened across your site very unintentionally, so of course I had to pursue things to ultimately find out why…
I have something I want to share with you regarding personality types and social interaction – and how unexpectedly accurate it ended up being in my case.
Happy Monday! – Brian