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Clay Morphosis
“Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Masque of Pandora, 1875)
Story
Once in a while, I like to take a break from metal altogether and get my hands dirty to sculpt ‘free flow’ with clay, preferably outside and in the company of little nieces and nephews. Like them, I learned to play with clay in childhood, and what I do now isn’t all that different. I start out with a lump and work my way inward.
Clay allows me to organically find and create forms and some of these are transient. I’ll take a few photographs, smash the clay and start all over again. It’s all for the sake of experimenting, for fun!
Form
I pretty much just go with the flow, looking for the curves and see where it leads me. Generally, the end result is an abstract organic form.
Technique
I sculpt with my bare hands, starting off with a lump of clay to which I rarely add or subtract — I kneed the form while keeping the original volume of the lump. Sometimes I stick little toothpicks into the clay, to force myself to work my way around them — a brilliant trick I learned during a workshop at the museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague.
Material
Clay (the old fashioned kind), sometimes painted and varnished. On occasion, I’ll play along with kids and their FIMO clay (synthetic polymer) or beeswax and sometimes I use Alkena modelling clay (with beeswax and ceramic components).
“The medium which is the earth itself has its own way..” – Isamu Noguchi (I.N. – Exhibition of Sculptures, Tokyo, exh. cat. 1954)
02 Objects/
Clay Morphosis
“Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Masque of Pandora, 1875)
Story
Once in a while, I like to take a break from metal altogether and get my hands dirty to sculpt ‘free flow’ with clay, preferably outside and in the company of little nieces and nephews. Like them, I learned to play with clay in childhood, and what I do now isn’t all that different. I start out with a lump and work my way inward.
Clay allows me to organically find and create forms and some of these are transient. I’ll take a few photographs, smash the clay and start all over again. It’s all for the sake of experimenting, for fun!
Form
I pretty much just go with the flow, looking for the curves and see where it leads me. Generally, the end result is an abstract organic form.
Technique
I sculpt with my bare hands, starting off with a lump of clay to which I rarely add or subtract — I kneed the form while keeping the original volume of the lump. Sometimes I stick little toothpicks into the clay, to force myself to work my way around them — a brilliant trick I learned during a workshop at the museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague.
Material
Clay (the old fashioned kind), sometimes painted and varnished. On occasion, I’ll play along with kids and their FIMO clay (synthetic polymer) or beeswax and sometimes I use Alkena modelling clay (with beeswax and ceramic components).
“The medium which is the earth itself has its own way..” – Isamu Noguchi (I.N. – Exhibition of Sculptures, Tokyo, exh. cat. 1954)
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