graduation project

2017

Mission: Applying the transfer technique - photolithography on clay.

Aim: To materialize my view of the emotional tension in my birth family.

Impact: New ways of communication opened between us through this project.

This transfering process is very fragile with different outcomes and many flaws. That's why I based my work on portraits because the human brain evolved to recognise faces even from fractures.

In my research of contemporary application, 

I found ceramics that deal with memories: memories of a family, of a community, of a pattern.

Chemistry and physics determine the life of a physical picture. The first known photograph was made of tar. Pictures now rarely become objects, they remain stored data.

Porcelain graveyard portraits are weatherproof surfaces that hold memory of a person. In lack of perfect binding, they disintegrate adding to the emotional aspect of the picture.

I drew my emotional map. It shows me being closed out of the outside world, while being isolated inside a sharp triangle of the three of us.

I created a space to take a look at our relationship from a distance.

We took pictures of each other.

I used the physical tension between high fire clay and porcelain to move the picture. The tension causes different styles of cracking in the surface, during drying and firing. I used cobalt blue as a colorant to avoid them becoming nostalgic.