Studio practice

 Ceramic sick  

To begin with the idea of nostalgia and time I’ve tried to create a ceramic vomit. Due to my anxiety issues a big side effect is physically being sick, i wanted to create a piece on the amount of time I’ve spent/wasted vomiting but I wanted to play with this idea in a humorous, fun way. 

I created this piece by sculpting small objects representing things I do daily like cigarettes and anxiety medication . I added this aspect of humour by having these objects stick out of the the vomit in an undigested manner, like using the coffee cup, it represents this daily caffeine intake but it’s funny because no one throws up a coffee cup. I created this fluid like vomit by throwing slip onto a board from high up and then placing the sculpted items in after. I’ve used white earthenware as I want to glaze this piece in a bright pepto bismol pink colour and that will work best on the white clay. 

My first piece I created broke, due to how thin the slip was when we picked it up from the sides the middle broke, I’ve saved small pieces to test out my glaze colour on. I’ve created another that is drying at the moment.