Rachael McCallum's Unicorn Spew,

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


Monday 1 July 2013

look ma, I can meme!


It might suck, but;
Hey- its my first day

I love it , I love it



" Its important, if drawing is your language, to draw every day "
me

:P

Heck yes! DAss Me :P










 Yep,  Fantasy is glorious!






 thanks to tumblr;




http://gladiatorfiles.tumblr.com/post/48054649870/google-scotlands-national-animal-google-it

Hang Ups; Why hang at all ?



SO, someone asked me the very simple question --> "Why DO you need to hang at all?"


Awkward


It catches me offguard when people give me their Brutal Simplicity Of Thought*
It was like asking a painter why would you hang, and someone who draws why do they draw in a book(?)- its a place you dont often question within yourself.



But the prompt is; these are CERAMIC pieces, and it must be a consideration if I have chosen to defy the holy Tabletop / Shelf with which the discipline is traditionally adhered to. With the strongest glue, ceramics has persevered with designing with gravity, not against. The fact is that the most logical and stable place for something essentially stone-like is on the horizontal. with the exemption of tiles and mortar, ceramic products are sensible on a shelf-  but if your appealing to new/different senses, it wont do at all!

I wish to dazzle the eyes and tease the mind, I want gravity to be an assumption that I can make an ass of u and me. Its basically the most consistent law of my daily Chaos. Ceramic surfaces are so recognisably and decieveably strong, deep or heavy, that is it just a game to play;




1 heavy looking thing + a feebly strung wire = tension.
1 heavy looking thing - any visible hanging = distrust + fear of security
1 moderately heavy looking thing + exposed and sturdy looking support = trust + attention shift from hanging to the piece's surface.









The social study continues, and this is why I hang. I want to make people fear 'the end' of the pieces life. the energetic glaze surface is the marks of an energy of my nurture and the kilns nature, and the life is hanging in the balance of its environment. If you trust the piece to be stable always, then there would be no fear of accidentally destroying its existence with a simple bump. Some lives exist in this world and are known as fragile- like the Panda population, some are taken for granted; like the Cockatoo. 








































(article repeated)

Awkward

It catches me offguard when people give me their Brutal Simplicity Of Thought*
It was like asking a painter why would you hang, and someone who draws why do they draw in a book(?)- its a place you dont often question within yourself.

But the prompt is; these are CERAMIC pieces, and it must be a consideration if I have chosen to defy the holy Tabletop / Shelf with which the discipline is traditionally adhered to. With the strongest glue, ceramics has persevered with designing with gravity, not against. The fact is that the most logical and stable place for something essentially stone-like is on the horizontal. with the exemption of tiles and mortar, ceramic products are sensible on a shelf-  but if your appealing to new/different senses, it wont do at all!

I wish to dazzle the eyes and tease the mind, I want gravity to be an assumption that I can make an ass of u and me. Its basically the most consistent law of my daily Chaos. Ceramic surfaces are so recognisably and decieveably strong, deep or heavy, that is it just a game to play;

 1 heavy looking thing + a feebly strung wire = tension.
1 heavy looking thing - any visible hanging = distrust + fear of security
1 moderately heavy looking thing + exposed and sturdy looking support = trust + attention shift from hanging to the piece's surface.

The social study continues, and this is why I hang. I want to make people fear 'the end' of the pieces life. the energetic glaze surface is the marks of an energy of my nurture and the kilns nature, and the life is hanging in the balance of its environment. If you trust the piece to be stable always, then there would be no fear of accidentally destroying its existence with a simple bump. Some lives exist in this world and are known as fragile- like the Panda population, some are taken for granted; like the Cockatoo. 




*Saatchi pub; Brutal Simplicity of Thought; Muarice S.  A Bluntly confronting book of advice and simplicity, strikes the heart of decision-making.
*Gleick, James;  Chaos: the Amazing Science of the Unpredictable, 1998 Vintage Books, London.
Is an excelent introduction for those who are alien to the world of Mathematical Science and Physics, it provides a objective reasoning to how all of the sciences and lifes tendancies can have random pattern.