Another missed opportunity to share what's going through the studio this summer.
I wanted to apply to a Ceramics Monthly general call for submission titled "From Idea to Finished Form", but I failed to read the directions (once again) and couldn't check off all the boxes in time to congratulate my self.
None the less, it was a fun quick project to pounce on.
In the end it was just an afternoon daydream of sawn stencils, x-acto cut stencils, scissor cut stencils, slip, and spriggs.
A short descriptive blurb...
"I'm a big believer of making use of sketchbooks (and scrap paper) to
work out concepts quickly. Being bi-vocational, I have just a handful of
hours every week to get work ready for the kilns so I prefer to invest
those few hours into playing with and developing ideas for small series
of functional ceramics. I mainly work with vocabularies of cut paper
stencils and sprigs to creating vocabularies for swarming surfaces to
build up compositions in slip. The result is a distinctive body of work
that's anchored in tradition, but plays freely with the
novelty of new ideas."
My rational is that deadlines seem to be for other artists.
On that note, other artists probably find success by underlining the fact that they can hit targets without making excuses.
(An equitable assumption...)
Luckily, I still prefer to play.
