Planning, Throwing and Painting.

A sunny day started with some early morning planning for my nature based art installation that will one day be at home outside. I rummaged through many ceramic books, and found that I was drawn to vases. But there was a problem, how to combine individual vessels into a large installation that could later be separated. So after taking pictures of many vases, Kate and I spent some time brainstorming ways to overcome this. The current idea is to throw a bunch of things that then push them up against each other, so that they fit together, but are still individual pieces. This will also create an intriguing texture and shape on each. So next, I got down to some throwing - six medium sized vases. Which took a while, but was very rewarding. After lunch, the installation space was freed up and I set up to start painting the whole room white again. Despite some heavy red spray paint, this was very successful. This room will be to the nature based indoor installation that I have already been working on for a few weeks. Tomorrow I will paint it brown and later start installing tiles. These two installations will make up the bulk of my work in the next few weeks, as they are both labor intensive. This afternoon I head up to the Greg (aka the mud pond shelter) to set up my tent, spend the night there and get more inspiration for both of my installations.  *May 4, 2015 - 3:45 pm*