Also when Joel Fisher goes into depth about firing he explains how when clay is dried it isn't as effective as when its fired. Being able to form something that was water dependent, fire it, and place it in a moist area without it absorbing the water in its surroundings gives your piece the ability to possibly be permanent. This allows your piece from the minute you finish making it to stay stable for many years to come.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Foreword Response
I have taken previous classes where I had the chance to experiment with clay. Even though it is not my specialty I always tried my best to get my point across when creating a piece. As said in the blog, clay is what we used to try and see what went on in the past, therefore looking at someone else's memories. So when it was stated that clay is something that is squishy in between your toes that's something that reverts back to memories. Since people think back on how something felt, smelled, or looked like when they try to remember something or someplace.
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Response to Reading 1- The Ceramic Process
ReplyDeleteMy experience with ceramics has been short, but I feel as though I have learned so much about it in this amount of time. I was able to take a ceramics class in high school my senior year which got me hooked on this amazing material-clay. This will be my second semester working with ceramics, and I still have a lot to learn! The reading gives a taste of the vastness of what clay has to offer including its extremely long and significant history, various uses, and observations about the processes of handling clay. The information from this reading provoked me to think about the aspects of clay that intrigued me the most on my journey with clay. These aspects are its flexibility, versatility, and the involved process of timing. What I mean by timing is this sort of choreography that happens when you make a piece. Depending on what you want to do with it, you might need to wait for a piece to dry out a little in order to attach it to another piece so it has stability, or waiting until the piece is the right hardness in order to carve a foot on the bottom of the piece. This choreography can be fluid but my experience with the ceramic process been more incremental. From my past experience in this class, I have learned about this choreography, and it has not always been something very easy to pick up. This semester I hope to continue learning the nuances of timing within the ceramic process as well as investigating the versatility and flexibility (or lack of) embodied in clay.