Porcelain Project 2022

After many delays, and outright stops, due to the pandemic – I was able to conceptualize this work, using beautiful, delicate, luminous porcelain. These porcelain ‘card’ pieces (3″ x 2″) were hand-rolled, and formed. They were smoothed, sanded by hand, and fired. A labour of love, and learning lots of new things – frankly, I just couldn’t wait to see the end result!

For now, I can say that lightness has been achieved. The thin, translucent luminosity of these pieces, when propped up against each other is gorgeous. In clay, I feel so many sparks of potential. Recognizing elements of past work, and dreaming of how this medium may inform future work.

I am very happy with the results, and am excited to see what is to come.

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Many thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for their support of this project.

Two white porcelain 'cards' resting on eachother in an 'a' shape, with a blue line running along the length, a blue line drawn on the horizontal surface as well.
Detail of vertical white porcelain 'cards', with a blue line running along the length, a blue line drawn on the horizontal surface as well.
Detail of vertical white porcelain 'cards', with a blue line running along the length, a blue line drawn on the horizontal surface as well.
Three white porcelain 'cards', resting against each other, in a triangle formation. With a blue line running along the length.
Detail of porcelian card structure, with blue line aligned. A blue line drawn on the horizontal surface.
Top view of white porcelain 'cards', built in an 'a' shape, with a blue line running along the length. A blue line drawn on the horizontal surface.
Detail of porcelian card structure, with blue line aligned. A blue line drawn on the horizontal surface.
Porcelian card structure, with blue line aligned.
Top view of white porcelain 'cards', built in an 'a' shape, with a blue line running along the length. A blue line drawn on the horizontal surface as well.
Detail of light coming through a porcelian 'card' structure.
Top view of white porcelain 'cards', with a blue lined on their surface, that lines up.
Detail of porcelian cards, with blue line aligned. A blue line drawn on the horizontal surface.
Detail of layered white porcelain 'cards', with a blue line running along the length, a blue line drawn on the horizontal surface as well.
Several pieces of white porcelain 'card' supported by itself.
A detail of a metal tool, held in a hand, hovering above a piece of porcelain, with a blue line.
Top view of blue lines matching up, from a white porcelain 'card' configeration.
Detail of porcelian cards, stacked on each other, with blue line aligned.
A detail of a stacked group of white porcelain 'cards', with blue lines on them, ready to be fired.
And image of sandpaper, and a piece of porcelain on the work bench.
Long view of a clay studio, work space in the foreground.
An image of two lumps of clay, a blade with a clay pattern resting on top.

Porcelain sculptures are ‘bound’ together by a very fine blue line.

Delicate and strong.