To kick my project off I used casts from last years Walcott Chapel exhibition project (the one with all the cups on my last blog - (mikesmartblog.blogspot.com)). I cast a variety of cups in porcelain and set about altering their form. I did this using bone dry casts and using a variety of techniques such as tapping the cups to create hairline fractures, snapping areas of clay off, and over-fettling pieces.
So having played around with these ideas, the above are photos of what they look like unfired. I then fired them to top temperature (1280 degrees) to see if any warping occured...
This is what the cup forms looked like after being vitrified. However, they hadn't warped at all like I had expected. My next step will be to fire them again but this time to 1300 degrees and leave them for a 30 minute soak. Hopefully this will create some rather warped forms, looking more like they have actually pulled themselves apart.
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