Project Inspiration

This whole project was inspired by my work from last year. I strived so hard all through my projects last year to create perfect fragile forms; identical to the models I had produced. Using porcelain to create these delicately thin objects meant that they had a tendency to warp or crack in either drying or firing. At the very end of the year, before my assessment I had put 3 cast porcelain forms in the kiln that were VERY thin. They were in a kiln with other peoples' work, and someone accidentally left the brick off the kiln, causing temperature fluxes within the kiln. This meant that these pieces pulled themselves apart in firing.

Initially I was gutted at them; having wanted them to be such perfect objects. However the more I looked at them, the more they grew on me. They seemed to have a character about them, more so than the perfectly formed ones around them. I began to think about the possibility that they looked like they had quite literally pulled themselves apart. Broke the mould as it were. I quite liked that a mould is made to create identical forms, and the idea that these casts had almost rebelled against this, deciding to not be what the 'should' be.

From these ideas I started to compare this to society, and how there are societal norms and people who rebel against these, in so many ways. Thus my project was born, and since then I have been experimenting with casts and ways to pull them apart and break them down.