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Aside from many health issues, I have created an effective vessel that can hold liquid. It was made by first creating a metal shape out of cut scraps that were welded together. Next, I broke a bottle into shards that were laid on the insides of the "cup" and melted in between the cracks. Unfortunately, metal expands when introduced to extreme heat while glass does not. Also, glass takes a really long time to cool down. So as the piece cooled the contracting metal around the glass combined with minor thermal shock caused the integrity of the cup to decrease significantly. Yes, it holds water, but small sharp fragments continue to fall from the remaining structure...almost a month and a half after it's completion. Still it was a fun experiment
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a pit firing is when you put pottery in a dug out pit and put burning stuff on top of it and it looks like this: a saggar is when you cover your pottery with strips of paper or foil and it burns in the pit firing and leaves behind patterns like these paper (right) and foil (left) firings. here is what my attempt at a pit firing ended up looking like. it was supposed to be a bowl, but as you can see, it didn't work out so well. the actual firing, however, seems to have worked quite well. my primary chemical was copper sulfide in both powder and liquid form. this ended up turning the inside and some of the outside a faint greenish color. i feel like if it were polished or something it would look a lot cooler.
so I made a rhinoceros, which turned into a goose, which turned into a possum, which then finally decided it wanted to look like a dolphin, who apparently was vietnamese. Any who, rather than make your average run-of-the-mill dolphin, I decided to paint mine black and have him coming out of a splash of lava. Why? Bruh, because thug lyfe .
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backgroundI don't really have any particular background with sculpting or sculptures. Archives
May 2015
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