I painted this piece with acrylic paint. This from a photograph that looks down on Resurrection Bay from Mt. Marathon. The photo was taken while hiking with my father.
This altered form is inspired by the late 19th century work of ceramist George Ohr. I try to recreate his techniques in many of my pieces. I want to create pieces that capture the wacky creativity that Ohr strived to achieve.
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I created this piece for a portrait assignment in my IB Visual Arts class. It was initally supposed to be a wolf, however, it ended up looking more like a sled dog. The clay was coiled into two different shapes that are fitted together, the head of the dog and the neck of the dog. The neck of the dog is very abstract, with lots of swirls, then gradually phasing out into the realistic dog head. The contrast and connection between the abstract and the realistic is representative of the spirit and the body. The spirit is the ephemeral, whereas the body is quite real and solid. Together the spirit and the body coexist to create a form, or a body, as illustrated by my piece.
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This photo was taken in Girdwood with a fisheye lense, and I wanted to convey a sense of scale–I wanted the viewer to feel dwarfed by nature as they looked up at the trees, the sky, and the moon.
