Ecstatic Electricity

Last-minute experimental touch-ups before the show, nail polish isn’t just for nails anymore #applecore #multimedia #nailpolish #sculpture #ceramic #eitheror #prohdr #ipodography (Taken with instagram)

Doing some last-minute experimental touchups - nail polish isn’t jut for nails anymore #ipodography #prohdr #eitheror #ceramic #sculpture #applecore #multimedia #nailpolish (Taken with instagram)

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Here’s a shot of my setup for tomorrow’s Ceramics critique. I’ll upload photos of the individual pieces tomorrow after class. These took me waaaay too long to make, but I’m really happy with the result. The patina on some of these is really fascinating. Unfortunately they’re not functional, because my Ceramics teacher is an art nazi who thinks that functionality immediately makes things domestic and banal and not Art. So I made some Art.

Now I don’t have to post filler any more because that huge silkscreening project I was talking about is finally done! 

Good Ol’ John.

But seriously, these are really lovely. I like that they are all unique, with a varied yet cohesive glaze palette.

Sean Avery’s broken CD animal sculptures.

See more here.

This is a roughly 2-foot-tall ceramic apple core with a 3-foot-long stuffed fabric worm and a paper stem and leaf. It was my final project for ceramics class.

dentsu: Paint Sound Sculptures

This is a sculpture in San Francisco’s Exploratoreum. It is made entirely of toothpicks and has replicas of every major building and attraction in the city. It is created in a way that one can place a ping pong ball anywhere along its tracks, and the ball will travel down, in, and around it in the same way that a person would while travelling the streets of San Francisco. This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. It’s probably about 7 feet tall.

Arte Povera sculpture. Glittery pinecones, small round lights, lampshade frame, yarn, chopsticks.

Here’s a picture of me sitting on my sculpture at tonight’s art show. My outfit matched it, completely unintentionally. A lot of people were impressed with my sculpture because of the fact that it’s actually a functional piece of furniture, and a couple people even asked me if it was for sale, but I wouldn’t sell it because it has a lot of sentimental value for me.

The art show itself was a huge success, a lot of my family and friends came out to support me and see what my classmates and I have been up to. The refreshments table was bountiful and beautiful, if I do say so myself, even though it involved me running around, full of adrenaline and sugar, in high heels, transporting food from one room to another. Totally worth it.

This was my final project for ceramics class. I call it the “OctoPie”. The glaze turned out pretty different than I expected, the crust was supposed to be one solid colour and the tentacles were supposed to be red. However, I am still pretty happy with the way it turned out.

This is my maquette (small-scale model) of my idea of “utopia” for sculpture class. It was (I say “was” because it got devoured almost immediately after today’s critique) made completely out of edible materials. I used sugar cubes, royal icing, sprinkles, swedish berries, gum drops, smarties, peanut m&m’s, dark/milk chocolate, lifesavers, turkish delight, sesame snaps, graham crackers, and hard candies (peppermints and candy canes) that I smashed with a hammer and then melted to make windows.

My minimalism sculptures for class. These are about 2 feet tall and made of glass. I kinda had an issue with this project and minimalism in general because for the most part, it goes against my usual style of making art. However, I do love a challenge.