SI #7

Stoneware Clay, 3" x 1.75" x 1"

Ideas: exploring how I'm growing from 'weeds' and blooming right now in my life, discovering who I am

Materials: Stoneware clay, underglaze, low fire glaze, real flowers

Processes: Tested form shape, started from slab, sculpted form of my body to show personal growth, glazed

References: "Language of Flowers", imagination

Reflection on Work

I chose to sculpt a bust because I wanted this piece to show personal growth in youth. I modeled it after my own torso to keep with that theme. I painted on grasses and weeds to show how I am growing out of the ground, upwards, and my personality and strengths are blooming like wildflowers, shown with the flower coming out of the neck instead of the head.

This piece strayed from my sustained investigation quite a bit and I had to do plenty of brainstorming and justifying each decision. I chose to have the flower coming out of the head to show growth, but also to keep with the vase theme I had going. I chose to leave the bust armless to show the feeling of letting go from trying to control everything, as hands and arms do. 

This piece let me try something I hadn’t done before, which I am very happy about. I enjoyed sculpting and I did a little bit more of it on my building with the ivy and cherry tree branches. I think moving into my post-portfolio/sustained investigation piece, I want to try something else new/different. I think I might throw a plate or something else I haven’t tried before. I want to just have fun with glazes and shapes and make something I’m really going to love, even if there’s no deeper meaning behind it. 

Visual Art Journal + Process Slide