Jeff Lawrence on mon 30 apr 12
Hi,
Chris's question about cracking clay made me realize the poverty of my
imagination, since I can't imagine what the heck.
1000 pounds of clay to blunge and dry into dry-lake-bed cracks .... hmmm
Is this a contemplative art installation to illustrate the waxing and
waning of all things physical?
A real-world demonstration of fractals in nature?
A plan to punk the nasty neighbor's swimming pool?
In any case, I urge setting up a clay-cam to record the shrinkage/cracking
for a video clip:
- pessimists can watch it in forward motion, brooding on the fragile
disunity of the physical world
- optimists can play it backwards, enthusing on the fractured made whole
Jeff
James Freeman on mon 30 apr 12
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jeff Lawrence wrote:
1000 pounds of clay to blunge and dry into dry-lake-bed cracks .... hmmm
Is this a contemplative art installation to illustrate the waxing and
waning of all things physical?
A real-world demonstration of fractals in nature?
In any case, I urge setting up a clay-cam to record the shrinkage/cracking
for a video clip:
Sadashi Inuzuka has been doing such drying pools of slip in his
installations for many years. I met him briefly about 10 years ago during
a salt firing at the University of Michigan. I am sure he was not the
first, nor the last to employ drying slip.
You can read about it here: http://www.ceramicart.com.au/inuzuka.shtml
You can see a picture of one such installation here (In the thumbnail
scroller below the photo pane, look for a white circle with a black pole
sticking up out of it, and click on that thumbnail):
http://sadashiinuzuka.com/index.php/artwork/portfolio/installations.html
All the best.
...James
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