Experimenting in the World of Porcelain

For the ceramics experiment, I started with making paper forms of container, such as a cup. However, by using the slip on my first experiment, I have realized the clay and fabric with slip are too heavy for my think paper model. I went with it and built the collapsing form because it would still be interesting to see the combination of yarn and lace together.

Through building with pure fabric dipped in slip, and realizing the lack of support, I moved on to using porcelain clay for the base support. I was not thinking too much about the shape of cups in which I am making. The purpose of the use of porcelain was only for the support and to see the combination of porcelain and slip. Along with the experimenting festival, I was also braiding yarns together, and then dipped into the slip. Finally, use newspaper to support the form I was interested in creating. 

After talking to Mia about my projects within more details, she asked me to check out the ceramics artist, Julie Poitras Santos. There two things of her artwork that I found extremely interesting and fitting with my idea. One being her performing installation piece, titled "Raven Mirror." Her use of sea of black ropes inspired me to braid my yarns for the look of ropes. The other one of her artwork, titled "Slip Drawing" reminded me a lot of my abstract of line drawings. Instead of ink on papers, she used porcelain slip in a punchbag and created a larger 3-D drawing on the ground. It was interesting to see her twist of using porcelain to force a drawing into a sculpture. Below is the link of her artist website for those who are interested to check it out. 

http://juliepoitrassantos.com/home.html