Elements

For this assignment we were instructed to create a ceramic piece inspired by one of the four elements: earth, air, fire and water.  I chose to create a piece that interacted with three, those three being earth, water and air.  This piece is a planter, meaning that it will hold earth and give life to a plant that uses air and water to grow.  

The lines on the pot itself mimim the texture of bark you might find on a stump, while the base plant mimics a blue-ish moss.  The planter as a whole is modeled after a stump sticking out from moss, such that the plant growing from it is like a plant growing out of a rotten stump.  

I made this piece using slab construction. I rolled out a large slab and used it for everything.  First I cut a large rectangle and let it get leather hard before bending it into the walls of the pot.  Then I set the cylinder on a slab and traced around it to form a base, before slipping and scoring to attach it.  To make the base plate I cut a slab into a circular shape and pinched the edges up. 

For the glazes I used PC-20 over PC-59 on the pot and PC-20 alone on the base plate.