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Project 1 - 3: artist statements
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so will put them on cd for Patti and try to do it once I'm home.
inspirations project 1:
artist statements:
Karen Smyth
take 1
ceramic objects in box
2010
project #1 / hand built
I created multiple small hand-built objects that are made to give away. Red Rose Tea and the small china figure that comes in every box inspired me. The passer by can choose to engage in the situation or not to. This discovery is the learning, finding out, and realizing. Discoveries are often beyond our control, but decisions are not. Decisions define who we are and the lives we lead. (discovery-deliberation-decision-doing). I would love to be a fly on the wall to see the person who does choose an object, and to see the decision-making and questions that come up. To continue with the piece, I would explore the specific space and the people that would pass through that space, and how the process of the participation is part of the project. For the context of the class, I put my box in a common space to us – in the ceramics building. I hope everyone in the class picks an object that they like and that it evokes a story or memory of the ceramics class.
Karen Smyth
golden bowl, edition of 6
ceramics, soup package
2010
project #2 / cast objects
I chose the design problem when casting Annie Chung soup bowls. I was thinking about the back to the basics of the bowl as an aesthetically pleasing object that can be reused. By choosing to cast a microwave soup bowl, I am taking the notion of fast food packaging – from Styrofoam to plastic to biodegradable plastic to something that can be reused. I was thinking about the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Willie Wonka’s golden ticket that were a series of golden tickets that could be found in select chocolate bars. People wanted to buy the chocolate bars in hopes of winning the grand prize. I set up one of the bowls, with the soup packging in a fabricated grocery store and it would be a real prize, like the finder of the golden ticket, to purchase a microwave soup and go home to find that your throwaway container was a real ceramic bowl to keep using.
Karen Smyth
my genealogical background part 2
ceramic pieces, wood, written work, video
2010
project #3 / wheel thrown
The inspiration for this project came through a series of conversations about my heritage as a Canadian and if I had ever done any art about that. I had not, so decided to take on the challenge. That led me to think about what a Canadian identity is and the conclusion that I came to is that a Canadian heritage is subtle and behind the scenes. The wheel thrown piece is a series of discs cut to fit a rectangle shape and on the back of two pieces is the Maple leaf stenciled on the bottom. The maple leaf, the maple tree and the look of the tree rings symbolize my heritage – and the branching out to the United States. The video of my American born daughter Pearl is the start of a series of videos exploring how I pass on my heritage through my children. The video is of Pearl trying to solve a problem. The red album was a high school project done on my genealogical background and the writings on the wall are the continuation of that project and the conclusion was missing in the high school version and the teacher said that “a conclusion would have tied it up nicely”.
so will put them on cd for Patti and try to do it once I'm home.inspirations project 1:
artist statements:
Karen Smyth
take 1
ceramic objects in box
2010
project #1 / hand built
I created multiple small hand-built objects that are made to give away. Red Rose Tea and the small china figure that comes in every box inspired me. The passer by can choose to engage in the situation or not to. This discovery is the learning, finding out, and realizing. Discoveries are often beyond our control, but decisions are not. Decisions define who we are and the lives we lead. (discovery-deliberation-decision-doing). I would love to be a fly on the wall to see the person who does choose an object, and to see the decision-making and questions that come up. To continue with the piece, I would explore the specific space and the people that would pass through that space, and how the process of the participation is part of the project. For the context of the class, I put my box in a common space to us – in the ceramics building. I hope everyone in the class picks an object that they like and that it evokes a story or memory of the ceramics class.
Karen Smyth
golden bowl, edition of 6
ceramics, soup package
2010
project #2 / cast objects
I chose the design problem when casting Annie Chung soup bowls. I was thinking about the back to the basics of the bowl as an aesthetically pleasing object that can be reused. By choosing to cast a microwave soup bowl, I am taking the notion of fast food packaging – from Styrofoam to plastic to biodegradable plastic to something that can be reused. I was thinking about the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Willie Wonka’s golden ticket that were a series of golden tickets that could be found in select chocolate bars. People wanted to buy the chocolate bars in hopes of winning the grand prize. I set up one of the bowls, with the soup packging in a fabricated grocery store and it would be a real prize, like the finder of the golden ticket, to purchase a microwave soup and go home to find that your throwaway container was a real ceramic bowl to keep using.
Karen Smyth
my genealogical background part 2
ceramic pieces, wood, written work, video
2010
project #3 / wheel thrown
The inspiration for this project came through a series of conversations about my heritage as a Canadian and if I had ever done any art about that. I had not, so decided to take on the challenge. That led me to think about what a Canadian identity is and the conclusion that I came to is that a Canadian heritage is subtle and behind the scenes. The wheel thrown piece is a series of discs cut to fit a rectangle shape and on the back of two pieces is the Maple leaf stenciled on the bottom. The maple leaf, the maple tree and the look of the tree rings symbolize my heritage – and the branching out to the United States. The video of my American born daughter Pearl is the start of a series of videos exploring how I pass on my heritage through my children. The video is of Pearl trying to solve a problem. The red album was a high school project done on my genealogical background and the writings on the wall are the continuation of that project and the conclusion was missing in the high school version and the teacher said that “a conclusion would have tied it up nicely”.
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