Narrative Project

This week was all about exploring our individual options in the formof a project based on a Narrative-i.e. the title of a book, a lie, a joke etc..
It was up to us to explore this in depth and come to a final plan for the following 4 weeks of work.
Having been to Venice and having one of my main contextual artists from the previous semesters, Dale Chihuly who worked on an Island off of it, i though it would be a good place to begin.

                                                                                  Chihuly in front of on of his pieces

So, i knew i wanted to do something surrounding the idea of Venice and luck for me, I had also read
Shakespear's 'The Merchant of Venice' in school, so it would be the perfect place to get a good quote, and i chose;
                                                   ''All of my riches are at sea''

Ceramics Week 1- Pot Vessel Object

We were given the brief to explore the breadth of ceramics and what we understood from the terms 'pot' 'vessel' and 'object'
My group and i divided our tasks into certain areas and then went and did research.
My task was to research the earliest forms of ceramics and hence learnced alot i didn't know before. My main research surrounded 'The Venus of Dolini'-See Fig.1- (a ceramic statue dated as far back as 25, 000 BC) Ancient Aurignacian Figurines of animals-See Fig.2- (dated back to 30,000 BC) Yuchanyan Cave Pottery See Fig.3- (shards of pots fouund in China dated as far back as 17,500 BC) and Ancient Jomon Pottery See Fig.4- (found in Japan and characterised by the rope techniques they used, dated circa 10,000 BC)

                                                          Fig.1 The Venus of Dolini

                                            
                                                  Fig.2 Ancient Aurignacian Figurines

                                                        Fig. 3 Yuchanyan Pottery

Fig.4 Ancient Jomon Pottery