Assignments:
Autobiographical Questionnaire
Being Mindful Blog
Time commitment sculpture
40 Small sculptures from words
4 Drawings from sculptures
4 Elements
Container for sculpture
Perfect Box
Pedestal for Box
Hybrid sculpture
8 Press Molds
Project Phoenix
Final Blog
Videos, events, and formal crits/discussions:
Maya Lin
Louise Nevelson
Mahlon Artist Talk
Wayne Artist Talk
Tea Party Crits
Raku Firing
My Worst Moment…would have to be when container for my sculptures, my perfect (not so perfect) box and pedestal all broke! It was disappointing but I learned a lot about the craft of clay and how you really have to work at it to get it to do what you want. I learned that slipping and scoring the very important when building a sculpture!
My Best Moment…was definitely doing the raku firing because I have never done that before so I was wicked excited about that and I was told that we wouldn’t do that at all at Alfred so that was awesome! I also really enjoyed making the press molds I thought the process for that project was really interesting. I feel like I learned the most from that project with drying time and putting the three part mold together, then smoothing it out. The decoration on the press molds I also had a lot of fun doing, so in my final project I wanted those pieces to be a focal point! I have really enjoyed this class and I think it’s funny that the last project was named project Justine!! Even though my stuff broke through the process of firing and such it’s good to be able to break everything and reassemble it in a different way, it’s giving new life to old work. Thanks for a great class!
Friday, April 30, 2010
The List...
Autobiographical Questionnaire
The Being on Being Mindful Blog
Manipulation Assignment
Time Commitment Assignment
Drawings Derived from the Manipulation Collection
4 elements
Slab built box assignment
pedestal for slab built box
container for bisqued pieces
Press Molds
Phoenix Project
Final Blog Assignment
Videos/Discussions:
Maya Lin
Mahlon
Wayne
Events/Crits:
4 elements crit
Press molds/box assignment
Raku Firing
Worst Moment:
Trying to make it through every monday class. Glass blow slots at 5 in the morning gave me little sleep. The movies in the library made me fall asleep but as long as I was doing something with my hands and making something I was fine.But it wasn't that bad of a worst moment.It did make me work harder after I took a nap and went back down to the studio.
Best Moment:
Breaking my work for the final project. There were some things I had trouble parting with but mostly it was nice being able to destroy my work. I learned I'm a more processed oriented person and am less concerned about the final project.
Autobiographical Questionnaire
The Being on Being Mindful Blog
Manipulation Assignment
Time Commitment Assignment
Drawings Derived from the Manipulation Collection
4 elements
Slab built box assignment
pedestal for slab built box
container for bisqued pieces
Press Molds
Phoenix Project
Final Blog Assignment
Videos/Discussions:
Maya Lin
Mahlon
Wayne
Events/Crits:
4 elements crit
Press molds/box assignment
Raku Firing
Worst Moment:
Trying to make it through every monday class. Glass blow slots at 5 in the morning gave me little sleep. The movies in the library made me fall asleep but as long as I was doing something with my hands and making something I was fine.But it wasn't that bad of a worst moment.It did make me work harder after I took a nap and went back down to the studio.
Best Moment:
Breaking my work for the final project. There were some things I had trouble parting with but mostly it was nice being able to destroy my work. I learned I'm a more processed oriented person and am less concerned about the final project.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Becca Polinski
Final Blog
April 28, 8:50pm
Assignments:
40 mini sculptures from words
1 lb timed sculpture
4 drawings from mini sculptures
Cut up drawings
4 Miquette 4" sculptures
16" coil built sculpture
Slip pattern on coil sculpture
Glaze coil built sculpture
Slab built box from body measurements
Slab built container for mini sculptures
Heavy/Light pedestal for box
2 objects for mold making
5 drawings for mold making project
1 Hybridized sculpture form
Plaster mold
8 Molds of hybridized sculpture
Glazed Box
Glazed Container
Glazed B/W Mini sculptures
8 Molds glazed: Black, White, Color, Cold "glaze"
Raku Firing
Project Phoenix
Final Blog
Class Clean up
Movies/Crits/In class events:
Maya Lin
Louise Nevelson
Noguchi
Mahlon Talk
Wayne Talk
4 Tea Party Crits
Best Moment:
Dancing with Wayne at the Raku firing, But close second would be "Glazing"
Worst Moment:
Its just clay, so no bad moments had :D
April 28, 8:50pm
Assignments:
40 mini sculptures from words
1 lb timed sculpture
4 drawings from mini sculptures
Cut up drawings
4 Miquette 4" sculptures
16" coil built sculpture
Slip pattern on coil sculpture
Glaze coil built sculpture
Slab built box from body measurements
Slab built container for mini sculptures
Heavy/Light pedestal for box
2 objects for mold making
5 drawings for mold making project
1 Hybridized sculpture form
Plaster mold
8 Molds of hybridized sculpture
Glazed Box
Glazed Container
Glazed B/W Mini sculptures
8 Molds glazed: Black, White, Color, Cold "glaze"
Raku Firing
Project Phoenix
Final Blog
Class Clean up
Movies/Crits/In class events:
Maya Lin
Louise Nevelson
Noguchi
Mahlon Talk
Wayne Talk
4 Tea Party Crits
Best Moment:
Dancing with Wayne at the Raku firing, But close second would be "Glazing"
Worst Moment:
Its just clay, so no bad moments had :D
Monday, April 26, 2010
Elliott Thorpe
Projects and Assignments:
Tiny Sculptures based on words and beginning of blog assignment
Drew four of the tiny sculptures
Made four models based on the contour line of the drawings
Picked one of the models to enlarge and produce twice
Slipped the two enlarged sculptures
Glazed the two enlarged sculptures
Perfect box and container
Pedestal for perfect box
Glazed small pieces, pedestal, box and container
Press Mold process (make eight)
glaze press mold pieces
Raku fire
Phoenix Project
Final Blog assignment
Videos, events, and formal crits/discussions:
crited manipulation project, pedestals, and press molds
briefly looked at containers
Maya Lin video and some bossy sculpture lady
presentations by Mahlon and Wayne about their work
1) Worst Moment was not listening to directions.
Result: I got made fun of a lot
I learned: that we're given instructions for a reason in the long run in may help to listen to the instructions the first time around to learn techniques then break the rules the second time for further learning experiences.
2) I don't feel I had a best moment showing me that I can push myself harder and I have room to grow.
Tiny Sculptures based on words and beginning of blog assignment
Drew four of the tiny sculptures
Made four models based on the contour line of the drawings
Picked one of the models to enlarge and produce twice
Slipped the two enlarged sculptures
Glazed the two enlarged sculptures
Perfect box and container
Pedestal for perfect box
Glazed small pieces, pedestal, box and container
Press Mold process (make eight)
glaze press mold pieces
Raku fire
Phoenix Project
Final Blog assignment
Videos, events, and formal crits/discussions:
crited manipulation project, pedestals, and press molds
briefly looked at containers
Maya Lin video and some bossy sculpture lady
presentations by Mahlon and Wayne about their work
1) Worst Moment was not listening to directions.
Result: I got made fun of a lot
I learned: that we're given instructions for a reason in the long run in may help to listen to the instructions the first time around to learn techniques then break the rules the second time for further learning experiences.
2) I don't feel I had a best moment showing me that I can push myself harder and I have room to grow.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Alexis Christina Crowley
the following is a comprehensive list of everything that happened in handbuilding this semester:
-Mahlon introduced himself and said some things about the class
-Wayne came back from china
-we mixed clay
-we made 40 1/2lb? sculptures based off of words (such as bundle, which showed up twice)
-we made a 2 lb sculpture within the confines of the class time in which we were supposed to use all methods of clay manipulation (I made something very ugly because I was trying to coil, pinch, roll and all that, later I found out the goal was to pay attention to detail, which I did not do in the least)
-we were told about the blog and asked to make a descriptive entry once a day (again, the goal was learning to pay attention to detail) one time I wrote about wanting a prickly pear, which i still want. this assignment eventually faded away.
-we made 4 drawings of the small word sculptures
-we made 4 4x4 solid clay blocks
-we cut up some of those drawings based on contours, so we could do this bilateral symmetry thing with the blocks, which would become models for a blown up version of themselves (blown up 4 times of course) - these were built using the coil method.
-we were given black and white slip to 'clothe' the strange blown up things
-at some point we watched a video of isamu naguchi, and maya lin, and also louise nevelson but i wasn't there for louise and I wish I was (how do you eat a pear, darling?)
-at some point we also saw slide presentations of both mahlon and wayne's work
-somewhere in there the kiln guy talked to us about firing kilns
-we were given awesome slab making machines and canvas and told to make a shelfing unit to contextualize our word sculptures
-at some point we were asked to read a lecture wayne gave and then go to the gallery and view his piece, then, based off those experiences, ask him a question about it on the blog.
-we also had to post a question about our weird blown up 4 times piece
-using the same slab making machine we were told to make a perfect box based off of body measurements
-later we were asked to make a pedestal for the perfect box that made it appear either heavy or light, also based off of body measurements
-We were asked to find 2 objects- 1 natural, 1 man-made- to fuse together to make a new object (ray gun) that had another size restriction related to the body. Once we made the solid clay prototype, we made a plaster mold of it. Once we made the plaster press mold, we cast 8 of them. Once we cast 8 of them we glazed or covered each of them differently.
- Now we have to make this blog post that is a list of everything in the world that happened this semester, and an answering of two questions.
- our last assignment will be the breaking and remaking EXTRAVAGANZA with a possibility of flocking or rubber to cover everything in the world that we made this semester.
crits:
-we looked at the word sculptures
-we crited the drawings
-we crited the blown up 4 times weird things with slip on them, over tea
-we crited the boxes and pedestals over tea
-we crited the mold made objects and the contextualizing shelving units today, without tea.
events:
-kiln loadings and unloadings and loadings and unloadings
-Raku firing! awesome (and personally painful as I had a migraine)
Worst Moment?:
pshew, i dont know. waiting for clay to dry. Waiting is my least favorite thing, and it gets in the way of working.
Or building that first blown up 4 times weird thing. I hated that, I was trying not to hate it, but I did. I felt like I didn't know what I was doing, which is how I always feel when it comes to making something that isn't anything. I can't care about it.
Or getting the glazed pieces back. I really hated that. they were ugly and dry, and I can't see why glazes should ever be ugly when there are so many better options out there. plus glazing is one of my favorite things about ceramics and there is nothing more dissapointing than fugly glazes.
I learned that I still hate clay a little bit, but for reasons that are avoidable outside of the classroom setting. (I almost decided against ever handbuilding again in my life).
Best Moment?:
uuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmm............ making the mattresses for the boat (contextualized shelving unit thing). I like making things that are things, I understand that some other people don't... well, I don't really understand it but I know that it happens. Being able to make a thing with a reason for existing, that I wouldn't have been able to make with another material, except maybe wax, brought me back to liking handbuilding. I'm not sure that I learned anything from that because I already knew that I'm stubbourn and I only like making things that are things.
My other best moment would have been the raku firing but i wasn't in tip top shape, so seeing the resulting ray guns was my other best moment.
I learned that I'm gonna try and do a raku firing this summer.
actually, in the end my best moment will probably be breaking everything and covering up the ugly glazes with flocking and rubber. I will learn of the wonders of powdered fabric and liquid rubber.
-Mahlon introduced himself and said some things about the class
-Wayne came back from china
-we mixed clay
-we made 40 1/2lb? sculptures based off of words (such as bundle, which showed up twice)
-we made a 2 lb sculpture within the confines of the class time in which we were supposed to use all methods of clay manipulation (I made something very ugly because I was trying to coil, pinch, roll and all that, later I found out the goal was to pay attention to detail, which I did not do in the least)
-we were told about the blog and asked to make a descriptive entry once a day (again, the goal was learning to pay attention to detail) one time I wrote about wanting a prickly pear, which i still want. this assignment eventually faded away.
-we made 4 drawings of the small word sculptures
-we made 4 4x4 solid clay blocks
-we cut up some of those drawings based on contours, so we could do this bilateral symmetry thing with the blocks, which would become models for a blown up version of themselves (blown up 4 times of course) - these were built using the coil method.
-we were given black and white slip to 'clothe' the strange blown up things
-at some point we watched a video of isamu naguchi, and maya lin, and also louise nevelson but i wasn't there for louise and I wish I was (how do you eat a pear, darling?)
-at some point we also saw slide presentations of both mahlon and wayne's work
-somewhere in there the kiln guy talked to us about firing kilns
-we were given awesome slab making machines and canvas and told to make a shelfing unit to contextualize our word sculptures
-at some point we were asked to read a lecture wayne gave and then go to the gallery and view his piece, then, based off those experiences, ask him a question about it on the blog.
-we also had to post a question about our weird blown up 4 times piece
-using the same slab making machine we were told to make a perfect box based off of body measurements
-later we were asked to make a pedestal for the perfect box that made it appear either heavy or light, also based off of body measurements
-We were asked to find 2 objects- 1 natural, 1 man-made- to fuse together to make a new object (ray gun) that had another size restriction related to the body. Once we made the solid clay prototype, we made a plaster mold of it. Once we made the plaster press mold, we cast 8 of them. Once we cast 8 of them we glazed or covered each of them differently.
- Now we have to make this blog post that is a list of everything in the world that happened this semester, and an answering of two questions.
- our last assignment will be the breaking and remaking EXTRAVAGANZA with a possibility of flocking or rubber to cover everything in the world that we made this semester.
crits:
-we looked at the word sculptures
-we crited the drawings
-we crited the blown up 4 times weird things with slip on them, over tea
-we crited the boxes and pedestals over tea
-we crited the mold made objects and the contextualizing shelving units today, without tea.
events:
-kiln loadings and unloadings and loadings and unloadings
-Raku firing! awesome (and personally painful as I had a migraine)
Worst Moment?:
pshew, i dont know. waiting for clay to dry. Waiting is my least favorite thing, and it gets in the way of working.
Or building that first blown up 4 times weird thing. I hated that, I was trying not to hate it, but I did. I felt like I didn't know what I was doing, which is how I always feel when it comes to making something that isn't anything. I can't care about it.
Or getting the glazed pieces back. I really hated that. they were ugly and dry, and I can't see why glazes should ever be ugly when there are so many better options out there. plus glazing is one of my favorite things about ceramics and there is nothing more dissapointing than fugly glazes.
I learned that I still hate clay a little bit, but for reasons that are avoidable outside of the classroom setting. (I almost decided against ever handbuilding again in my life).
Best Moment?:
uuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmm............ making the mattresses for the boat (contextualized shelving unit thing). I like making things that are things, I understand that some other people don't... well, I don't really understand it but I know that it happens. Being able to make a thing with a reason for existing, that I wouldn't have been able to make with another material, except maybe wax, brought me back to liking handbuilding. I'm not sure that I learned anything from that because I already knew that I'm stubbourn and I only like making things that are things.
My other best moment would have been the raku firing but i wasn't in tip top shape, so seeing the resulting ray guns was my other best moment.
I learned that I'm gonna try and do a raku firing this summer.
actually, in the end my best moment will probably be breaking everything and covering up the ugly glazes with flocking and rubber. I will learn of the wonders of powdered fabric and liquid rubber.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Becca Polinski
April 15, 2:27 am
This blog is for sharing what we are feeling inside of ourselves, right now I am experiencing a "wonderful" combination of exhaustion and pure painful itchiness.
This blog is for sharing what we are feeling inside of ourselves, right now I am experiencing a "wonderful" combination of exhaustion and pure painful itchiness.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Becca Polinski
April 8, 12:12 pm
I wish my mood could mirror the current sunny weather, but some how the serenity I felt this past weekend is gone. I'm not one to be homesick, but in earnest the only thing I really want right now is to be home. Home with my Mom, be near my family and though it isn't always a stress free environment there, there is a sense of "terra firma"; A place that could help me get my head straightened. Then I'm reminded of all the work that is to be done and that hope of falling to home is gone. My skin literally feels like it is crawling with unease and now matter how much work I try to get done the relief is short lived because, well once something is finally done there is always something else that needs attention. Sometimes I start dreaming of the moment when I get a solid time to myself, then I remember that there is no caching a break there is just more to come. So here is to finding a way to get my head screwed on and getting all to be done, done.
I wish my mood could mirror the current sunny weather, but some how the serenity I felt this past weekend is gone. I'm not one to be homesick, but in earnest the only thing I really want right now is to be home. Home with my Mom, be near my family and though it isn't always a stress free environment there, there is a sense of "terra firma"; A place that could help me get my head straightened. Then I'm reminded of all the work that is to be done and that hope of falling to home is gone. My skin literally feels like it is crawling with unease and now matter how much work I try to get done the relief is short lived because, well once something is finally done there is always something else that needs attention. Sometimes I start dreaming of the moment when I get a solid time to myself, then I remember that there is no caching a break there is just more to come. So here is to finding a way to get my head screwed on and getting all to be done, done.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Arianna
Cotton candy's a funny thing. Especially when you get it in an Easter basket from your roommate's parents during your third year of college.
Stuffed and smooshed, it comes in a tub. I take off the lid, pull back the "freshness seal" and dip my fingers into the dizzying array of thinly spun sugar. I pinch some out, crushing the already crushed, and touch a bit to the end of my tongue. Beads of pink saliva run around like little insects, gathering more and more as they travel. Eventually they slow. The candy goes in my mouth and I'm immediately transported back to the summer before 1st grade, sitting in the ballpark, eating this miraculous food because I had pushed my parents enough to buy me one of the brightly colored clouds floating through the stands.
My eyes refocus and I'm sitting in my apartment. I should be reading for class, but instead I'm enjoying the sugar and the memories.
Stuffed and smooshed, it comes in a tub. I take off the lid, pull back the "freshness seal" and dip my fingers into the dizzying array of thinly spun sugar. I pinch some out, crushing the already crushed, and touch a bit to the end of my tongue. Beads of pink saliva run around like little insects, gathering more and more as they travel. Eventually they slow. The candy goes in my mouth and I'm immediately transported back to the summer before 1st grade, sitting in the ballpark, eating this miraculous food because I had pushed my parents enough to buy me one of the brightly colored clouds floating through the stands.
My eyes refocus and I'm sitting in my apartment. I should be reading for class, but instead I'm enjoying the sugar and the memories.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Ceramic Performance Piece
Hey everyone!
Just to let you all know tomorrow (Friday) at 12:30 I am doing a Ceramic time based endurance performance piece outside the grad spaces in the courtyard in Harder hall. If you guys would come by and spread the word that would be awesome! I am performing from 12:30-8:30 on both Friday AND Saturday. It is apart of an on going project for my sculpture class all based off of an 8' Cube that we have to interact with and will be going on through out April so you should stop by other times and see what all the other awesome things are!
Hope you are all enjoying the weather!
Becca Polinski
Just to let you all know tomorrow (Friday) at 12:30 I am doing a Ceramic time based endurance performance piece outside the grad spaces in the courtyard in Harder hall. If you guys would come by and spread the word that would be awesome! I am performing from 12:30-8:30 on both Friday AND Saturday. It is apart of an on going project for my sculpture class all based off of an 8' Cube that we have to interact with and will be going on through out April so you should stop by other times and see what all the other awesome things are!
Hope you are all enjoying the weather!
Becca Polinski
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