I watched "Exit Through The Gift Shop" a few months ago and something bugged me. It ate at me for months really. Why is there no ceramic street art? It kept eating at me. I would read a ceramic artists blog, see pictures of their work and think "Wouldn't this piece look good in a park?" or "Wouldn't his/her style be great for some kind of street art?". Finally I decided to do something on my own. I am going to document it here.
I am not a ceramic artist. I am a crafts person. There's a difference. I currently make nothing but functional ware. Not that functional ware can't be art but I rarely think of a coffee mug no matter how well made as art. Not even if Hamada himself made it.
I am going to push myself with this project and hopefully do something fun for others as well.
I started last night. I am making a series of installations I am going to install in public places without permission. I am starting with two simple, small projects. I am working with a theme of invasive species. I am modeling invasive plants that I am going to "plant" in local parks. We'll see if they are truly invasive or if they get weeded out ;)
The first is a very simple to execute invasive "grass". Long strips of porcelain that have a point at one end. Not sure how I will glaze them yet but they will be installed in a clump that looks like a clump of grass.
The next is a bad seed. A model of a large sprouting seed with some spikes of applied slip. This one will simply be left on the ground in a locala park. Probably at the base of a tree.
I am going to sign all the installations with scorched earth, maybe include a link back to this blog for good measure.
