PLACE SETTING
PLACE SETTING Artist Statement
Jiwon Yoon B-4
Well...at least none of my pieces stuck to the kiln this time! I unified my place setting with the glaze I used. I had initially planned on using underglaze to create a swirly, blue-turquoise place setting with an orange accent, but there were quite a few reasons why I abandoned that. First, I had just finished my unified tile piece so I wanted to do something other than painting glaze. Second, I used the high-fire dipping glaze for both my mugs last year and, well... both of them ended up breaking. I wanted to revisit dipping glaze and get it right this time! Lastly, despite having almost double the amount of time the other Ceramics students had, I was still running out of time. I needed to finish glazing on that day, and painting the style I wanted would’ve taken longer. The glaze came out darker than I expected, and I’m thinking that it was that Iron Lustre that was too thin again. Iron Lustre and I are not on good terms. But it still turned out nice!
I love wheel throwing. I discovered my weakness is trimming the feet though--in the middle of the process, the piece gets off center and then its impossible to get the feet right! Then I just stop the wheel and try to do it by hand and then it all goes downhill from there. So...centering and I aren’t on good terms either. I actually thought that the plate was the easiest to make, but hardest to get off the wheel. The bowl was hardest to make because I never know when to start pulling it in or out to make that...bowl shape. But practice makes better!
Jiwon Yoon B-4
Well...at least none of my pieces stuck to the kiln this time! I unified my place setting with the glaze I used. I had initially planned on using underglaze to create a swirly, blue-turquoise place setting with an orange accent, but there were quite a few reasons why I abandoned that. First, I had just finished my unified tile piece so I wanted to do something other than painting glaze. Second, I used the high-fire dipping glaze for both my mugs last year and, well... both of them ended up breaking. I wanted to revisit dipping glaze and get it right this time! Lastly, despite having almost double the amount of time the other Ceramics students had, I was still running out of time. I needed to finish glazing on that day, and painting the style I wanted would’ve taken longer. The glaze came out darker than I expected, and I’m thinking that it was that Iron Lustre that was too thin again. Iron Lustre and I are not on good terms. But it still turned out nice!
I love wheel throwing. I discovered my weakness is trimming the feet though--in the middle of the process, the piece gets off center and then its impossible to get the feet right! Then I just stop the wheel and try to do it by hand and then it all goes downhill from there. So...centering and I aren’t on good terms either. I actually thought that the plate was the easiest to make, but hardest to get off the wheel. The bowl was hardest to make because I never know when to start pulling it in or out to make that...bowl shape. But practice makes better!