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#Jessica Thompson-Lee
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Jessica Thompson-Lee twists the age-old design precept of kind following operate along with her biomorphic ceramics. Evocative of mobile constructions, coral, and mycelium networks, handles seem to develop from Thompson-Lee’s mugs, sprawling outward into lattice-like webs that require customers to fit their fingers into the amorphous shapes.
“The person drinking from it will play around with different ways their fingers intertwine and rest in/on the sculptural handle,” she tells Colossal. “With the sculptural vases, people can use the holes in the organic sculptural elements to stick in and weave flowers through for a playful and interactive flower-arranging experience.”
Every design is born from what the artist calls “sketching with clay…After filling a squeeze bottle full of porcelain slip, I squeeze liquid clay designs onto a plaster slab, never knowing exactly how the designs will turn out. This unpredictability is both an important and enjoyable part of the process,” she shares.
Working from her Brooklyn studio, Thompson-Lee begins by throwing a vessel on the wheel earlier than transferring into hand-building. Beginning with a thick slab of clay and an exacto knife, she sculpts the deal with’s primary form earlier than slicing away extra materials and smoothing the perimeters with a humid sponge. The artist then attaches the piece to the vessel, which she sends via an preliminary spherical of firing earlier than drawing a sample onto the floor. Fastidiously layered glazes and underglazes full the colourful, summary designs earlier than the second journey to the kiln.
Thompson-Lee plans to increase her biomorphic types into extra practical objects like jars, lamps, dishes, and small furnishings and has experimented with recycled paper pulp, as properly. Discover accessible items on Etsy, and observe new additions on Instagram. You additionally would possibly take pleasure in this bold undertaking to create 100 completely different handles in as many days.
#ceramics
#Jessica Thompson-Lee
#sculpture
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