INTRODUCTION!!!!!!!!

Hello, all!! It's your good ol' pal Sylvia again! I don't have any photos of what any of my most recent works look like yet, but ill be sure to upload those as soon as possible. Most of what my most recent work consists of is fairly basic shapes and basic exploration of forms, types of clay, glazes, and mastering creating functional forms I haven't created yet. Currently at Phoenix Fired Arts I am working on a porcelain tea set. I'm uber excite about finally working with porcelain, as I love its elegant and pristine natural color, the way it takes to glazes, and its lightweight fragility. I also am very interested in the things you can do with porcelain clay, as after my tea set I hope to work with Brent Skinner who has offered to show me how to Saager fire works in alumium foil through the Raku kiln, which speaking of the Raku, we're also planning on working with that as well!

Apart from Phoenix, I have some plans for some cool stuff at Pitt State, that very well might cross borders and be worked on at Phoenix as well. Last semester in my Portfolio Creations and Research class, we were asked to come up with a rationalized project that we could potentially submit for a grant proposal. My proposed work was to somehow infuse peoples sense, such as touch, smell, and sight as well as how these can adversely or positively affect a persons initial reactions and emotions towards an object. My original idea was to somehow combine people these senses and correlate them to peoples reactions with food. Feel free to read the former blog posts to understand more of where i'm coming from.

 I don't exactly plan to complete the project that I had lain out within this class, although I will be building off of it. I've been contemplating on whether to actually work with clay for this project, as I feel that it would be compelling to create vessels that I would typically create with clay, with actual food, each of these vessels could somehow correlate with the food that they were made of. There's also the option of still working with clay and somehow bringing together the food aspect of it as well as the emotional aspect, such as how could i exemplify through clay the taste of sweetness, perhaps the bitter pucker of a sour grapefruit, or perhaps the sublime pleasure of aromatic cube of fromage.

LET'S HAVE A GREAT SEMESTER! I LOVE YOU ALL!! TOGETHER WE CAN FLY AWAY AND MAKE RAINBOW ART EXPLOSIONS!!