Spot the Pot
Halifax
Posted by Rabbit (Richmond, United States) on 23 December 2008 in Art & Design.
130 in. (3.3 m) in length, slip-cast porcelain and handbuilt colored clay (photo from article sited below) **
This is one of my FAVORITE ceramic artist MyungJin Choi.
Now the hard part - getting me to talk about it.
I suppose the easiest place to start is answering the question WHY do I like it?
I'm drawn to the colors. Not just the colors themselves, but how she transitions from one color to the next. The way she blends her layers of color looks like the excavation of some geoscientific project. (Geoscience - another subject that i'm completely fascinated by and if I thought I could READ and COMPREHEND this subject I would have studied and perused this in college *however as you may know I have a reading disability* oh well - lets get back to the good stuff - ART.
I also enjoy the texture as well as the holes. Making me think this is something little creatures would enjoy living in. Reading the article about her work she says she likes to alter space. I suppose giving you this wonderful piece to look at instead of blank wall seems pretty snazzy to me. I feel like I would like some kind of color on the wall though instead of white. Maybe tan? or black. Something that makes this become a part of the space.
I appreciate the tedious work it seems this piece must have taken to make as well. I have seen one of her works up-close and each little tiny texture wave you see (not just the ban of color but even thinner) Each little sliver is a piece of colored clay. Looks like thinly sliced cheese that has been stacked until it starts to bend and wave as the pieces are not exactly lined up on top of one another.
Overall I am very interested in this type of work and would like to research HOW this is done. I have an idea but would just like it to be confirmed.
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Hall, Sherman. "Emerging Ceramic Artists to Watch: New Pottery and Ceramic Sculpture." Ceramic Arts Daily
October 6, 2008 <http://www.ceramicartsdaily.org/feature/featuredetail/2008-10/emergingceramicartists.aspx>.
