Sacred Vessel. |
Title: Melting Religion.
Size: 15.5 cm x 10.5 cm Medium: Clay Date: March, 2016 Exhibition Text. I chose to do this piece as my sacred vessel because my family believes strongly in religion but society today reflects upon religion negatively. I also wanted to represent religion and how it is praised upon in different cultures present in the united state and countries around us. |
Process and Outcome.
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With my scared vessel I wanted to focus on religion and how it is looked upon on. I'm Catholic and believe in god but I also know that some cultures that Catholicism is considered incorrect because they believe in someone who has a higher power. I learned from my aunt how to pray and believe in this god but so many people would tell me that I shouldn't pray to someone who isn't real, so with that I chose to focus mainly on religion.
In the beginning, I started with the design of a cross and jewelry box to represent how sometimes people leave their crosses and other scared jewelry hidden away from the evil. When I was designing the first sketch I realized that it would be hard to create the jewelry box without the chance of it collapsing it or blowing up in the kiln. Also with the large amount of clay being used I think the cross would become almost swallowed up in color by the box since the clay is a natural color. My second design I liked because the design of the cross as a rosary along with being draped over the bible. Once again I realized that creating the bible will be hard and also adding the rosary would be hard because I wanted to keep everything clay-made. Along with the third design I was having a hard time visualizing the way everything would be set up in the view of a window. I had a difficult time with visualization only because the medium had to be clay and I'm not very good at working with clay so I was trying to keep my designs simple so I could have more detail. My final sketch was my favorite and final because it sincerely connects to my personal connection between religion and family. After completing my sketches I was able to physically image what I was going to do and then I got to work. First a challenge for me was making clay but after that everything was easy going. One of my biggest struggles though was creating the ashtray without making it insanely skinny so it didn't fall apart. Another problem I had was making the cross thick enough and long enough to hang over the edges. One of my successes was taking away the bottom of the ashtray because I wanted to represent open-minded opinions about religion but also how it is reflected negatively with an open-mind. Another success was in general working with the clay because usually i'm never great at working with clay but this time was easy for me. |