Friday, February 23, 2007
8:41 PM
I am extraordinarily happy with the way my ceramics project is turning out. I'm finally done sculpting it and it is now ready to be fired. I'm so happy with the way it looks, though. See, the assignment was a figurative sculpture that has to represent the human form in some way. And the figurative-ness of it meant that it had to have some purpose or reason behind the design. My idea was to have a human head that had all of it's physical features kind of blurred with the exception of the ears, which would be in full detail and would have earplugs in them. The concept is that if you tune out the world, or try to not listen to what the world is trying to tell you, then you lose not only who you really are (facial features) but also that it blinds you/desensitizes you to the rest of the world. And I really can't believe how much my semi-finished product looks like what I had imagined. Now all I have to do is hope that it doesn't blow up in the kiln, or lose an ear or something like that. I would seriously cry. I'm so proud of it, I would just die if something happened to it. I think the reason i'm so excited about it, is that I was really doubting my skills in three dimensional work. Now, I really don't consider myself an artist, or anything like that, but I do enjoy art, and I want to enjoy all different types of media to work with. I really felt like my skills with ceramics were absolute crap. My first two projects certainly didn't show otherwise. Oh well, this project, so far (knock on wood) is more than making up for the other two. Eeeeeeeeeee! i'm soo excited!