Pill Box & Shells
Pill Box& Shells.
Stoneware, aluminium, brass shell casing, gold leaf, limpet shells & wood.
Dimensions: Variable. Box closed 40 x 20 x 20cm
This is made from a red clay, painted with panels of Limoges porcelain and then fired to stoneware temperature (1260°C) in a heavily reduced atmosphere, together with a machined aluminium block, and two found objects: sea shells (limpet) and a WW1 shell casing picked up when visiting the battlefields at Ypres.
The title contains an element of wordplay/double meaning which is given visual form in the piece of work. A pill box can be a container for medicinal tablets or a concrete defensive position. Shells can be either the sea kind or military. Here you get both.
A crack developed on one surface in the firing and is filled with gold leafed resin, Kintsugi, a process I have been considering for a long time but the first time I actually used it because Jan had some leaf and knew how to apply it.
Stoneware, aluminium, brass shell casing, gold leaf, limpet shells & wood.
Dimensions: Variable. Box closed 40 x 20 x 20cm
This is made from a red clay, painted with panels of Limoges porcelain and then fired to stoneware temperature (1260°C) in a heavily reduced atmosphere, together with a machined aluminium block, and two found objects: sea shells (limpet) and a WW1 shell casing picked up when visiting the battlefields at Ypres.
The title contains an element of wordplay/double meaning which is given visual form in the piece of work. A pill box can be a container for medicinal tablets or a concrete defensive position. Shells can be either the sea kind or military. Here you get both.
A crack developed on one surface in the firing and is filled with gold leafed resin, Kintsugi, a process I have been considering for a long time but the first time I actually used it because Jan had some leaf and knew how to apply it.
