Rachael McCallum's Unicorn Spew,

Rachael McCallum's UnicornSpew ~The online journal of Artness as-it-happens.


Thursday 10 October 2013

The former form....

These images are of the form during the consider process.  What is appropriate?  I could use watercolor or glaze, acrlyic or engobes. I settled with stoneware glazes from fairly traditional backgrounds, as well as some more odd and poisoning glazes to discuss function: or at least render them definitely-not-functional as tablware! But that was obvious with their arrangements....
The shapes were so beautiful. ...
I wonder what they will be

Magic will happen!

These are the moments before the fire changes these forever!

Im starting a consider the possibility of painting with ceramic materials.  More than this,  after understanding the concept that there is no such thing as 2d representation- a circle becomes a bowl. This leads me to conceptually challenge what is a painting. I am at early stages of thinking directly about tableware, as recently I was merely exploring materials. But wait to see where this goes,  I have no idea myself what will actually happen and how it will read....

Sunday 6 October 2013

I am for the art out of a doggys mouth, falling five stories from the roof.

http://artiststatements.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/claes-oldenburg-i-am-for-an-art/
 
 
I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap & still comes out on top.
I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary.
I am for all art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.
I am for an artist who vanishes, turning up in a white cap painting signs or hallways.
I am for art that comes out of a chimney like black hair and scatters in the sky.
I am for art that spills out of an old mans purse when he is bounced off a passing fender.
I am for the art out of a doggys mouth, falling five stories from the roof.
I am for the art that a kid licks, after peeling away the wrapper.
 

DEFinitely worth a look.... ;D