Preperations

I started throwing my bowls this week. I have 4 made so far. At least 6 more to go. I decided to start experimenting with different rim shapes and came up with this one. It is my favorite so far because it doesn't just look like a normal bowl. Something that I want to pay more attention to is to make my pottery more interesting and show my choices in the way that I shape them.
I also started work on my installation show in March. I began making egg molds on Saturday. After one failed attempt (eggs forever enclosed in plaster) I finished my mold tonight. I'm excited to make some porcelain eggs that will be spilling out of a bowl hung from over head. 

Time and Pottery

I have been doing some reading on whether or not time actually slows down in a crisis. I read about an experiment in which scientists had the test subjects fall backwards off of a 45 meter high platform. After reviewing the results this group of scientists concluded that in an emergency we have richer and more detailed memories of the event, making it seem much longer. They compare this to children remembering their summers as longer than an older person who records memories of the same amount of time. As we grow older we remember less because commonplace events are no longer memorable for us. 
I've been working on my throwing. I feel pretty out of practice since I haven't been in ceramics class since June. The top photo is of my favorite mug so far. I have now made 11 cups/mugs. I started out making the little bowl forms on the bottom but realized quickly I needed to start back at the beginning and get some practice in.
I'm going to need a lot of pottery if I'm going to be smashing some of it. I am pretty sure I am going to add a video to my installation in March. Since what I am trying to show is that I believe time is perceptual, meaning that it may change based on circumstance, I want to film the smashing of my pottery. I am planning on filming them at regular speed and then slowing the video down at the moment right before they hit the ground and then returning it to regular speed mid-way through the breaking.
I plan on casting eggs this week as well. I want to have a few dozen made from porcelain that will be spilling out of a large bowl.

Ideas for my ceramic project.

     I want to continue learning how to throw on the wheel but I have been giving some thought to the conceptual side of my ceramics pieces.
     I did a drawing series over the summer about time. I was reading about Kant and Einstein's theories of time. The drawing series was about three different theories of time. Time as perceptual, time as universal and time as relative to speed.
     The moment that I was thinking about was the moment before death. Twice in my life I experienced believing that I was going to die. Once slowly, due to an illness and once quickly, in a car accident. That moment has always intrigued me but not in the cheesy "life flashes before your eyes" way because that doesn't happen.
     The way that I want to make this work together is to sculpt liquid pouring out of the cups that I throw which is why I shot this photo as a reference. Also I want to break some of these glasses and suspend them in lucite.
     Brian showed me the work of German photographer Martin Klimas. I would like to suspend the broken pottery in the way that it began to break in and not just put it back together.