SandraHolleArt

For me, although different materials and processes involved, ceramics and concrete work have common ground. I started off making intuitive clay models which I gave an additional dimension by casting them in concrete. To find my way into my practice MA, I again started off with clay models, clay test tiles, slip decoration and oxides. This helped me to define the direction I would be going and formed the basis of what (and how) I would adapt in concrete. The processes I learned in ceramics work such as hand building, slip casting, slip decoration, burnishing, polishing, dealing with cracks or using oxides are very well adaptable to my concrete work and helped me to create my forms. On the other hand, I use my experiences with concrete to achieve textures and surfaces in clay as well and gained a better understanding of processes for both materials. When a glaze reaction happens in the kiln on a ceramic piece, the same is true for a work in concrete where different ingredients react diff...

In a previous post I showed a drawing that somehow, to me boiled down what I envisage as the ongoings in my brain.  My thoughts, constantly tangled up in too many ideas, the worries about my health, all the way through to the microscopic image of what neural tissue might look like, being intact or with inflammation.  I have this drawing in front of me every day, on the mantel piece. It helps me to direct my thoughts to my initial cause of doing what I'm doing at the moment.  Also, looking at it all the time, made me wonder in what way I could further develop this drawing into a sculptural piece that would be coherent with my project. I decided to make a cast of it. I read about the lost wax method that sculptors use to produce bronze casts. Also, I found a post by a jeweller explaining the technique of wax carving.  Wax - turned out to be great for carving ribbons out of it. So I Very satisfying, carving into a slab of melted candl...