Hand built vessel, paper clay, matte glazes and ceramic pencil

This sculptural vessel explores ideas for confining and/or containing space. In urban terms, space is increasingly a commodity and a luxury. Constrained spaces are the new norm in the built environment.

This vessel offers alternate readings for enclosed space; a confined cell punctured with narrow openings to provide air or a protected sealed container with its interior out of reach and only able to be glimpsed at through viewing slots.

The opposition inherent in the form is also exploited in the surface treatment; glazed versus unglazed, smooth versus textured.

 

Tags: boundaries, ceramics