Historical coil project

This project, similar to the "coil and carve" project was a vase made from coils. Just like the other project, I began with a solid clay slab base, then began adding coilds in the circular to the base, builing upward. This project, however, was impired by a historical pompeiian vase. Because it was inspired by a pompeian pot, the shape was obviously something new, a new challenge. Instead of building the coild straight upward, I now had tobuild them out, then inward, then outward once more to create a curvy vase-like shape. It was even harder in this porject than in the "coil and carve" project to maintain the correct form, without any inverted or pushed out sides. After the vase was done with the construction faze, it was time for glazing. I used both the PC-29 Green Speckle and PC-02 Saturated Gold glazes. I used the same dripping tequnique as I used on the "coil and carve" project, first applying the green glaze before dripping down the gold glaze over it and on the inside of the vase as well.

Overall, I would way that both unity and emphasis were the two post important and prominent principals of art in this project. The unity aspect comes from the unity of the Pompeiian form along with the glazes, that I believe make the piece look more ancient. The way the gold glaze pooled in the cracks, making them look rusty, old, and well used gave this piece a very vintage look, matching the Pompeiian constrution. The emphasis aspect of this piece comes from the use of different glazes. The gold glaze puts a lot of emphasis on the rim of the vase, where the wavy texture is, making it stand out more than other areas, which is good considering that this part of the vase is something that I am most proud of in this piece. In this piece, I struggled the most with the cracks that formed after the bique firing. Although at first I hated these cracks, after glazing the vase, the way the glazes pooled in them turned out to be beautiful, and someting that I think looks the most beautiful in the project, as I discussed earlier.