All the work below is between 9 inches and 1.5 feet in height with exception of the sculpture, my "Monument to Failure", which is about 4 and a half feet tall off the pedestal. All the pots are salt/soda fired, and the Monument is greenware (unfired) pottery. I've tried to set up the images in the two posts below in a way that recreates my exhibit best, with a chronological order in two parts, vertical lines and horizontal lines, with some of both found in my latest work at the end. The actual exhibit is in the Luce Gallery at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, IA, where I am an art major. The show is exhibited as a senior thesis show demonstrating my abilities in art, as well as my understanding of my craft. Like many works shown at senior thesis shows at Cornell it does fall under Postmodern Art and is based around a concept. Get into my concept if you want, or just enjoy the pictures my pots.
The Following is the artist statement that goes along with the work in the gallery:
"Nothing is ever perfect. There is always room for improvement. Not just in craft, but in everything. We are always learning, and we can always learn more. But despite this, we always strive to achieve perfection.
All the pots are tall, cylindrical forms, thrown on the wheel with a few hand built parts, all of them were created this semester. They move chronologically from the earliest up front, right and left, to the newest in the corner farthest from this point. These are the pieces that met my changing standards immediately after I threw and decorated them.
At the center sits my monument to failure. It is a collection of my pieces that did not meet my standards, being too weak, to heavy, too short, or just too ugly. They were never wasted, with each one I learned things not to do and found new ideas of what to do. Each helped to further my progress in the craft, helping me to see more clearly my impossible goal; still unfired, I could forever continue to add to it. In both my failure and my successful pots one can see how I changed their size, shape, colors, and even began to develop a style. The pots and sculpture should be viewed not as individuals, but as a whole, as a window into my thought over the past four months."
