This serie is the second of the cane challenges collection; where I ask my online community to participate in the creation of the collection by choosing an idea to be made in a nerikomi cane. I follow the concepts that naturally emerge from working with imposed subjects, and letting my natural gesture and the particularities of nerikomi technique add layers of meaning to the basic ideas. For this serie the subjects were sun, forget me not, and beetle. The forget me not pattern was used to create the sky background for Mrs. Sun. She's been cooking for a long time! I started to create this pattern back in june! She have a lot of strong emotions and she doesn't have one bit of shame about it. She's fiercely destructive, get too close and you get burned.
Making this serie was very cathartic... but it's not my story, at least not at this time. It's the story of a woman that passed in my life like a shooting star, she crossed my sky full speed and it was impossible to look away.
Materials
porcelain, ceramic pigments, glaze and
Approximate dimensions
Maintenance
No microwave and handwash. Handmade ceramics are fragile by nature, they should be treated with the same care as your fanciest wine glasses.
Disclaimer
The dimensions given are approximate and can vary slightly. Each object is hand builded without the use of a potter wheel, and are never perfectly symmetrical. My pieces are all one of a kind functional artworks, and I favor artistic complexity over technical perfection. I produce the imagery on my pieces with multiple successive layers of colored porcelain, stoneware and minerals, so it is normal to perceive textures, small holes or separations between colors, or micro cracks in the frosting. Minimal flaws are to be expected. If there are more significant flaws that affect the function, the piece will be classified as ‘’seconds’’ and will be 50% off. If the flaw affects the beauty of the piece it will be marked as second and be 20% or 30% off. Please look at the images carefully as the imperfections are not hidden.