David Paton 1:1

  • try firing ceramics – The Poly has a kiln – takes the process more out of your hands https://thepoly.org/whats-on/event/1710/poly-pottery
  • Making the Geologic Now
  • Arts for Living on a Damaged Planet
  • Veronica Vickery – PhD to do with geologic and water, practice-based research
  • using process/artwork to unpack dissertation research
    • particularly out in the landscape
    • make pieces and speak through them
    • good way of linking practice and theory
  • evolved in water – its presence implied
  • Bennett – key emphasis on assemblage
  • recombinant‘ – recombinant geologies, considering what this means in terms of the Anthropocene
  • craft – imposing yourself more on the material
  • Anthropocene as intentional vs unintentional
  • tension between allowing things to do their own thing and close looking/visual inspection
  • The Shape of Craft, Ezra Shales
  • Phoebe Cummings and unfired clay, more unfinished
  • no glue = letting it do its own thing, allowing the materials to ‘fall apart’
  • be specific
  • assemblage of water and stoneware etc
  • think about geologic processes – fusion, compression, amalgamations etc
  • find and use clay deposits – riverbanks, River Fal, woodland streams etc
  • https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/how-to-use-local-clays-in-your-pottery-2745850
  • get more process involved – set up conditions – could become more performative, you’re an actant in the performance
  • tension between process and result – thinness and fatness
  • use craft principles and employ them in your own way
  • scale – try something bigger (got a good amount of ‘ingredients’ at the moment) – push limits, then reflect and pick out bits, now is a good time to try it
  • Sigurdur Gudmundsson – photos interacting materials and landscape
  • paper mache pieces relate to from-like drawings – exhibit together?
  • idea of ongoing geology
  • set up conditions
  • sand castle
  • sand covered sculpture washed clean by sea
  • rock forming conditions: high heat, high pressure (physical or emotional?!), exposed to a hot mineral-rich fluid/slowly cooling liquid
  • ^plaster? make thick/layer? mix in sand, rocks, string, glue, fabric
  • sanding down = eroding
  • erode with water while plaster is still wet
  • compression of fragments into a new form
  • 5 minute rock
  • revisit rock tracking – use/draw out shape – track/make lines – follow something floating in waves – Jessica Warboys?
  • paint plaster onto surface of an assemblage – let it dry and crack

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