Ceramics Workshop Experiments

I was able to take part in a ceramics workshop today which was very helpful in letting me explore new avenues of work. ceramics is very important in the home as It is what most of our eating appliances such as plates, bowls and cups are made from. There are various forms of ceramics that one can work with but today I was working with terracotta clay and used it in some unconventional ways.

I created two simple houses, four walls, a triangular roof and knife drawn doors and windows, much like a three-dimensional children’s drawing. I then threw these houses against a wall to smash and deform them, this became the finished piece. It reminds me of Dorothy’s house from the Wizard of Oz when it lands atop the wicked witch. This kind of displacement of a house is somewhat nauseating, it could be seen as a demolished pile of clay from a child or an abstract piece of an artist.

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