Next quarter in sculpture I will be working on a large installation that experiments with how we view color and texture and how the meaning of an object can change just by messing with the color & such. This quarter in class I would like to make some pieces to go along with that installation. For this first project I will make a bazooka and glaze it to appear as candy. This gun is from Paul Scott's Mechanical Series. He renders these weapons impotent by re-interpreting them in clay into non-functioning objects. This is an awesome piece. Wonder if the whole thing is clay???
The gas canister is from his Par Fum series where he explores the "sense of smell and it's relationship with the emotional meaning that scents may carry." In his piece Without Boundries he uses the gas cylinder as a metaphor for containment of these "preconcious emotions." I like how he glazed it in a fashion that also changes the way we view the gas cylinder. An object usually viewed as something bad. Here it is as a pretty perfume bottle.
Charles Krafft make what is
referred to as "Disasterware." He uses decorative Delft painting to "explore the sometimes - Orwellian realities of our times." He has a dark commentary on world events and uses images of nature and socio-political catastrophes painted onto ceramic weapons. I like the detail that he not only puts into the weapons but the decorating of them also.
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