Woke just before 5AM and started cleaning around the elecreic kiln. Decided to load what I have does already before something gets bumped or knocked over. A part experience thing :)
I get EXCITED because I can often start feeling or seeing the finished object or work in my thoughts before I am barely started
This is funny because when I start a fountain 95% of the time I never know how the finishe3d piece will look like.
I have this habit of building something up, than cutting is off and transposing it to anot6her part of the fountain. I actually like how that happens when things come together.
.. it probably is in our blood. Both sides of my family have a lot of artists or artistic types in them... My brothers and I are all artists/musicians/writers...
You are fortunate. I have four brothers. None are artists,. All engineers, toolmakers(me too by papers). But my dad does see the art in designing a new mold. And I'm sure he gets the same satuisfaction watching it go from blueprint to steel to press to product.
I've oft times thought of building small(table scale) fountains, than make a mold and run a seriies of maybe 500. That would definitely cut down on time costs. And I guess if someone wanted an one of a kind AW peice, they could pay through the nose<GGGGGG>
We can dream here, right?
I've always though my indooor fountains would fit great in bank lobbies, professional buildings, etc. But I never took advantage of the opportunities I had to refine them to that level.
I've also tried doing sectional pieces(with minor success" I figure if I can make a piece 3X3 tf, why not figure things out to have them over lap and rest ontop each other thust the final product could be limitless. MONUMENTAL !!!!!!!
I've envisioned a 15' high piece spanning over several sq.ft. containing four or more sections(which in reality could each be individual pieces.
... I can't quite explain my attraction to good pieces, but they speak to me. I just about always hear one piece crying, "Pick me!! Pick me!!" louder and more persistently than all the rest in a studio...
I know what you mean there too. I call it singing. When a piece sings, it's got form and depth of glaze and it can just jump right out at you and..... sing :
K, my break is over. Gonna clean a bit more. I have a wooden shelf I moved right up against the kiln a number of yearts ago, it's loaded witrh junk but needs to be moved cuz of the radiant heat. Though that's usually not more than a couple hundred degrees, why chance it. Wood burns about 800 right? |
