Damien Schmitt "Skull Magnet"

2.5" x 1.5" x 1", Stoneware and Paint, 2024

 My idea is  a raccoon skull fridge magnet.  i got this idea because its related to my life by the fact i hunt raccoons and killed one recently to the time i made this.

I rolled it into a ball than carved out the shape with the wood thing till it looked like a raccoon skull.

it means that i think people should kill raccoons because they are bad for the environment.  i'm wanting the audience to think the same thing i do about raccoons because i don't think people realize how bad they are for the environment they harm the bird populations by eating there eggs. 

none of it was difficult so i didn't have struggles to overcome.

it is a realistic style because i based it off a real raccoon school. its unique to my personal style bc i've never made a magnet.  i likw the teeth on it. 

Damien Schmitt  "Berts Vase"

4.5" x 2" x 9",  Stoneware and Glass, 2024 

 my idea is vase that looks more like a bottle. i don't remember how i got my idea i kinda just did it. I do have an life experiences that inspire me. 

the process was making a slab into a vase.  i used the letter things to put the name in.

there i no symbolism or iconography in this peace idk what it means. i don't want my audience to think anything.  there is no symbolic imagery in the work.

getting it to stand up because it fell twice.  i overcame the struglles by restarting because the first time my slab fell over and i had to restart. i would have made it not have a neck. and a different handle

Non-Objective style i think. nothing makes it unique to your own personal style. i love the color of it.

Damien Schmitt "Nubbed Chip Bowl"

Diameter 5.5", Hight 0.75", Stoneware and Glass, 2024 

 my idea was a small chip or salsa bowl.  i got the idea bc it was a required project and it evolved into nubbed because when it came out it had a little nub i didn't plan.

the process was taking a slab and putting it in that ring thing than dropping the ring on a table to form a bowl.  i used that ring thing and the pattern roller.

this piece means i like food. i want my audience to think the little nub was an accident but its ok because not everything goes as plan. there is no symbolic imagery in the work? 

there was no struggles.  i would change the little nub.

it is Non-Objective i think. its not unique to your own personal style. i like the pattern of it.

Damien Schmitt "8 Arch Chip Bowl"

Diameter 5.5", Hight 1", Stoneware and Glass, 2024 

my idea was a small chip or salsa bowl.  i got the idea bc it was a required project and it evolved into me adding 8 little feet in arch like shapes.  Inspirations from life experiences?  Another Artwork?

the process was taking a slab and putting it in that ring thing than dropping the ring on a table to form a bowl.  i used that ring thing and the pattern roller.

this piece means i like food.  i want my audience to it looks good.  there is no symbolic imagery in the work.

only sruggle i had was when i thought you had to push it into the ring thing not drop it so it falls but than i figured it out.  i wouldn't change anything

it is Non-Objective i think. its not unique to your own personal style. i like the color of it.