Bowls for Great Bowls of Fire!
My current project, the first of the fall season, is the creation of bowls for Great Bowls of Fire.
My objective is to produce at least 25 bowls that I can donate to the Guild sponsored fundraiser for the Ottawa Food Bank.
As always, when extruding the first portion of a clay block through the extruder template I was presented with a raw edged shape. Since I was thinking about the basic concept of the exercise and in particular the idea that Colette Beardall espoused about not loosing sight of the fact that the entire exercise is to provide some physical support for people who do not have enough to eat, I saw in the rough form a bowl shape that one might see if they used half a harvested coconut shell.
And so I began to form these imagined nature-given bowls by following the lead of the clay as expressed the energy that compressed it and forced it through the semi-circular opening in the template. Not only the overall shape of the vessel that was produced, but the lines on its inner and outer surfaces created by the rough edges of the semi-circular template hole.
After producing the first batch I mixed some dark and light clay together for the second batch in order to help the viewer more see the current of clay that made the walls of the bowl and the bold patterns that were created in the process.
If you have thirty seconds please watch the video to see a sample bowl and how I incorporated the Ottawa Food Bank logo to remind people what it is all about.
My objective is to produce at least 25 bowls that I can donate to the Guild sponsored fundraiser for the Ottawa Food Bank.
As always, when extruding the first portion of a clay block through the extruder template I was presented with a raw edged shape. Since I was thinking about the basic concept of the exercise and in particular the idea that Colette Beardall espoused about not loosing sight of the fact that the entire exercise is to provide some physical support for people who do not have enough to eat, I saw in the rough form a bowl shape that one might see if they used half a harvested coconut shell.
And so I began to form these imagined nature-given bowls by following the lead of the clay as expressed the energy that compressed it and forced it through the semi-circular opening in the template. Not only the overall shape of the vessel that was produced, but the lines on its inner and outer surfaces created by the rough edges of the semi-circular template hole.
After producing the first batch I mixed some dark and light clay together for the second batch in order to help the viewer more see the current of clay that made the walls of the bowl and the bold patterns that were created in the process.
If you have thirty seconds please watch the video to see a sample bowl and how I incorporated the Ottawa Food Bank logo to remind people what it is all about.
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