Week 8 - more ideas
This has been a week of more trials and an exciting visit - you might not think so, but I went on a behind the scenes tour of the A465 road works between Gilwern and Brynmawr? The engineering is fantastic as is the attention to detail - the use of corten steel on the bridge structures, reminding us of the iron industry that used to occupy this valley. Then there is the fantastic limestone stonework linking the new road to the quarries high up on the hillsides; they have even
Week 7 - Light and Heavy!
So, I've been playing with clay - using my oxide clay in different ways - what happens when you put a circle on its side and then fire - it slumps! How can this be controlled? Is it a useful analogy for closure, contractions, etc? Other ideas where about cutting and tearing a solid piece of porcelain - showing the lines of oxide hidden within the clay - interesting! Then there's the layering of images - stamped into a plaster slab and pressed into clay - layers of history may
