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02/03/23
I’ve decided that I want to create a series of vessels in the organic/asymmetrical style I experimented with when I was last in the ceramics workshop.
Despite the fact that Wabi Sabi is centred around tea-ceremonies and therefore various pots, tea cups, bowls etc. are an integral aspect – I’ve never actually contemplated the meaning or function of a ‘vessel’ before.
Coincidentally, an artist was suggested on my instagram feed – a reel promoting a song she had made about “the journey of being a vessel for creation and letting art be fluid.”
It made me realise that to be a vessel is something belonging to both human and non-human. Not only that, but you become a vessel in order to make one… It’s spiritual significance suddenly dawned on me & the ouroboros symbol came to mind..
So what started as curiosity turned to almost necessity to my project and I started sketching designs for vessels.
I wanted to incorporate bits of foliage and twigs if I could to further blur the line between human/non-human elements.
For this pot in particular I’m hoping to tie a piece of bark to it using string.