Just an update to as how my piece is going:
It's been two weeks since I've last posted and I have made a lot of progress. I have decided to hand make each tile for this piece verses cutting slabs and just wire cutting the tiles. I think it is important for me during this process to completely dive in to the piece as a whole and have a complete hand in all the variables. My count is 1,002 tiles as of today. I plan to play with glazes and fire the first thousand today, during our class. If all goes well this time next week I should have another thousand. In terms of where I see this piece going I'm thinking very organic, no iconic images will be painted onto the tiles, and a sense of being overwhelmed is what I want the viewer to experience. I am still unsure as to the color scheme that I am going with. I am still teetering on the vast white plains or rich saturated middle eastern colors. I did have one dream that resembled the piece, which consisted of this repetitive hills rolling over and over again. This feeling of monotonous motion constantly fluctuating. 
Example of what pre-glazed/fired tiles look like.
This painterly quality in this work-might be something I may lean towards.
No comments:
Post a Comment