Dulwhich Artist Festival 2015

I took part in the Dulwhich Artist Festival 2015, I displayed my miniature pots in Tom&Ingrid Beazly House. I sold many miniature pots and got a lot of customer's opinions. 

This was a very useful time to understand customer's preference, for example colour, forms and size of miniature pots.  also I got a lot of information about market of ceramic and miniature, for instance shops or people who like miniature things.

Talking with customers give me  good opinions and inspiration. I am going to take part in this kind of exhibitions as much as I can in the future.

Indian pottery -throw by the same motion and apply the same amount of pressure-

The proposal for the study tour of Indian pottery.

I am currently researching the relationship between the human body and art in the field of craft. In India, there is a tradition of drinking chai in disposable biscuit cups. To accommodate this practice, a large amount of biscuit cups is made every day. The goal of this trip is to observe the production process of chai cups around Kolkata, to gather inspiration and incorporate it into my practice.

In the production of these cups, Indian potters throw them quickly on the wheel, creating approximately three cups per minute. They make cups of a similar size and shape not by using tools to measure, but rather by their hands. They throw by the same motion and apply the same amount of pressure. It is an amazing technique that reveals one of the ways in which the human body and artwork are related in the creation process. Moreover, they use no tools to make the cups’ surface smooth, so their hands mark the surface of each cup. This illustrates another aspect of the relationship between the human body and artwork. This practice is expected to be an important research object.

I have proposed a ten-day journey. While this may seem a bit long for only one city, it is justified by the complexity of the practice. I would like to see the entire process, from the digging up of the clay to the firing of the cups. Chai cups are made of local clay and fired at very low temperatures, a unique and remarkable characteristic.

This trip to the field is expected to give me great inspiration as I explore new relationships between the artist’s body and artwork. I want to find out innovative contact ways with clay through this trip.

Body throwing

 I explored new action to make new forms.  I tried to throw clay by using head, mouth, elbow, stomach, knee and feet. The forms and scales of works were influenced by forms and scale of my body parts. also my action influence them.

Ceramic Art London 2015

I visit "Ceramic Art London2015".  

Most of British ceramic artists are not interested in making original glazes. I am making my original glazes, It would be strong character for my works.

Writing Producing Date

I visited Picasso museum in Paris. Picasso wrote producing dates with his signatures. It was interesting for me and influenced my project.  Producing date is one of the important point as artworks. We imagine background of paintings through dates.  I will write date on my pots. 

On Kawara also painted producing date. We imagine a lot of things from dates.

Photo shooting -Tortus Copenhagen-

TORTUS COPENHAGEN is a Danish pottery studio. Their images are very unique.  They take photos of their products with the muscular artist. I do not know whether it is the best presentation for their works. But this is their strategy and I think this presentation is very strong.

Photo shooting of miniature pots

 I have not had good photos of my miniature so I took photography of my miniature works. I took photos of them as groups of miniatures, because, I thought taking photos of them individually was not so beautiful.   Photo shooting is difficult, but it is very important to make presentations. I will ask professional photographer in the future to get great images.