The shape and design of a form affects how a viewer will perceive it; aesthetic choices complement the appreciation of non-visual elements, such as taste or smell, and the memory that these senses can evoke.
Students will be making a hand-built, ceramic incense burner in the tradition of Japanese forms but with content derived from personal memory.
Your goals:
Students will be making a hand-built, ceramic incense burner in the tradition of Japanese forms but with content derived from personal memory.
Your goals:
- Create a hand-built, ceramic incense burner/holder whose design complements its smell and the memory evoked by it.
- Explore the expressive qualities of different ceramic forms, especially as related to the aesthetic of Japanese incense burners and the concept of wabi-sabi.
- Learn/practice/apply the hand-building techniques of pinch (pot), slab, and coil.
- Learn/practice/apply ways to manipulate and decorate the surface of the clay forms by using techniques such as impression, incision, modeling, and glazing.
- Become acquainted with contemporary Japanese ceramicists such as:
| art_ii_incense_burner_rubric.pdf |
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