Someone asked me recently what I am making these days - um, apart from a big mess - and the above photos are of works in progress, currently drying slowly prior to bisque firing. I am making double walled vessels for my ANU final project (Independent Work Proposal), they are large enough to hold in both arms, and they just barely fit into my larger electric kiln. The plan is to decorate them with multiple techniques and layers of colour, image and text using the print on clay techniques I learnt at ANU in the last few years. The red and white 'stuff' on the lower image is a tissue transfer I had just applied and was about to peel off leaving the red pattern on the clay surface. I like to print my own transfers from my own drawings or sources. Photoshop is my friend!
The overall theme is viewing the vessel as a metaphor for a nest or a home, a place of sanctuary, safety, launch, domesticity - you name it.
