Clay/Fired Clay : Making Play~Research~Creation

Play~Research~Creation
A Place Of Risk : Speculative~Pragmatism.

Overflowing Forces~in-acts of Sympathy.

Modes of Articulation~Speculative Making.

Clay~Making : The Analogous Atmosphere of Experience.

A Serious Place : Pronouncements of both play and inquiry.

Clay~Fire~Colour : Following Resonances : Interiors in fired clay.

Research~Creation : Initiative Spaces of Time.

Asking how making is a thinking in its own right, what else that thinking can do?

Erin Manning.

Into the clay-field of experience.

Play-in-practice enables speculative markings and intuitive feelings to be all playfully built into a making ecology of creative practice.

In working in-play with the plastic clay, creative, playful fictive readings inhabit it very materiality. Marks and gestures contained by it can also just as readily be erased or covered by desire or misadventure.

The clay field, demarcated by a pragmatism founded on practical concerns of the maximum internal dimensions of the kiln and the practical ability to lift slab cut clay without tearing onto separate workboards. The clay worked on from both sides is then further acted up by generative templates from previous works, then the working surfaces are fabricated into a spatial form containing three internal but interconnected spaces.

The fired clay forms are merely resultants of a map of intensities are folded into a conduit for relational movements and their expression.

The resultant spatial forms are merely a conduit for the folded spaces formed around a map of intensities.

Work extracted from the firing, brought back into daylight, changed and covered by gestures that have now become concretized into a new and emergent landscape with its own ecology of practice.