Create a bowl. Let it stiffen.
Have a spherical pinch-pot, leather hard, or bone dry. Painted? Ooh, porcelain?
Add a cylinder to the top of the bowl and create a sphere. Prior to closing, dry out the inside really well and insert the pinch-pot.
Interesting to see if this works.
Or, simply a thrown sphere with a hand-built sphere on top acting as a lid. With another small ball on top, making three spheres.
There's one guy in my ceramics class, kind of an oddball, but so am I, so I can't really diss him for that. Anyway, at the midterm review, one of the objects he displayed sported a huge erect penis which wasn't in harmony with the rest of the sculpture. When it came time for the class to critique it, everyone danced around the fact that there was this BIG HONKIN' JOHNSON stuck on it! Kind of comical really. So me, with my big mouth, said, "Well, no one has talked about this, but I feel compelled to: I have a problem with the subject matter of this piece [no pun intended]. It seems to me that the phallus is arbitrary, included simply for shock value. It's my opinion that art of this nature needs to have a message or social statement of some kind to be justified." You know what I mean? The shock has to be "earned," as they say in creative writing. The guy responded that he just thought it would be funny, that he thinks penises are funny. Well, whatever. The tone of my voice, I thought, was diplomatic and not aggressive or confrontational, but this guy didn't look or speak to me for the rest of class, which was the last class prior to spring break. And he hasn't been back to class since. I feel somewhat responsible.
Was I wrong to say that? I mean, I would never craft a huge cunt and sit it there on the table of a beginning ceramics class for critique, especially if it didn't have some sort of significance in my intention.
But I do agree that penises are kind of funny. When they're not threatening.
posted by Newpeep, N.D. (neurotic depressive) @ 12:55 PM
3 Comments:
I don't think you were wrong - but I guess he took it personally - Maybe if you see him next, you can approach him and further explain your reasons.
I never see him; he must have dropped the class. :-/ But thanks for your input!
You are funny!
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