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Sensate Reading with Deleuze and Spinoza~Radical Intuitions : Interacting with clay+ceramic.

By Russell Moreton 2025

Speculative and Exploratory Field Works.

An Ontology of Making, Russell Moreton.

Clay is not a medium through which ideas are represented. It is a mode of thinking. Ceramic is the provisional chamber in which this thinking gathers. Its walls do not contain meaning but hold open a field of correspondence between body, material, atmosphere, fire and time. Every inscription, aperture, weathering and deposit is a proposition emerging from this reciprocity. The work does not illustrate philosophy; it practises one. It is a practical philosophy in which making is the condition of thought, and thought remains answerable to the sensate intelligence of clay.

Inscriptions, handwriting, cognitive connections across visual art materialisms.

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Gathered readings, walking across holloways and embodied dispositions, surfaces/inseparable cartographies of embodied experiences.

 

Undisciplined knowledge enables and sustains actions, gestures of a post disciplinary field.

 

Inseparable categories (containers and bodies) and their contents.

The Aesthetic,

The Economic,

The Political,

The Social,

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Ceramic Shelters : Transitional Zones between Thinking and Making.

Simple Dwelling Places

Research-Creation.
Russell Moreton.


How the history of pottery and the philosophy of pottery has informed contemporary practice.


Working Notes: Edmund de Waal.

Independent research for Studio Practice Theory and Analysis.
UCA Farnham, MA Interiors. 2014.

Why does Edmund de Waal make architectural interventions through the arrangement of porcelain pots?
To what extent, if any is this Ceramist interested in the ability of the single pot to…

Edmund de Waal, How the history of pottery and the philosophy of pottery has informed contemporary practice.

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