Inspiration:Building process:Finished Product:Reflection:These fish were a learning experience. They came with many difficulties. They for one thing, on the day that I was going to get them fired, had fallen completely apart. The fins came off and everything. What ended up happening was I had to fire every single piece separately twice. For the glaze and the first firing. I then was finally able to use acrylic on the white fish to paint all the splatters. I think this piece really brought the development of my voice and creative thoughts. The piece actually holds some sentimentality with it. The story behind this piece is dealing with yin and yang. Think of the opposites that still have a little of each other in it. If you didn't notice the eyes of the fish represent that. The black eyes on the white and the white eyes on the black. The white fish then has even more representation than that. The reason the fish was painted with splatters of paint was to show my creativity. The black one however is my anxiety and doubts. The white fish was bigger because it shows my growth towards not always getting pulled down by my problems. The anxiety is still there however so thats why the black eyes and fish are still included. This piece definitely didn't come out the way it was planned but I think that is the beauty of it. I was even going to have the white fish on top trying to compress the black showing that sometimes I try to compress my anxiety by focusing on something else. I think I may redo this one in the future in which that can be actually done but I still love the representation this one holds.
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Inspiration:Building:Finished piece:Reflection:This piece was a big challenge for me. This piece was one that I had to really plan out and picture because it had so many pieces. I wanted to make a light in a piece of clay and since I remembered my childhood when I went inside a light house I wanted to recreate it. I had to make the piece in five different pieces then attach them together. The base of the house with all the rocks I built in three pieces then attached them before the clay dried. However, I had to cut holes out that would be big enough to let the cord fit through. It was most nerve recking because clay can shrink and I didn’t want to fire it then not be able to run the cable trough it. When I did get to run it through there was some difficult spots to get through. Then I made the middle part where the light went into. The only problem I had with it was adding the clay on the top of the wire and actually having it level. The wire was the only difficult part to add in. The next thing was making the cone at the top in which was difficult for two reasons. One because I need it to be level with the middle piece. It didn’t come out the greatest but it doesn’t look bad. I know that the other part was trying to build it up like that to make a point. I think I may come back to this piece just to finish off the top. The reason I say that is because the very top was never attached for the thought of wanting it to have the capability of changing the lightbulb if needed. I think if I came back to it I would just add a latch so it could stay on while also being able to open and close.
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