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Student Name: Aaryn S
Grade: 12
Title: In the Kitchen
Description: I wanted to make a perfect sphere out of clay, but that by itself would be boring. I’m really fascinated by how spheres and curved surfaces warp shape and perspective and I realized this was the perfect opportunity to experiment with a panoramic sphere, a ball with a scene painted onto it that you can see in all directions. I think they work because your brain processes images captured through a sphere (your eyeball) anyway, I also think it’s really cool that on a sphere a line can look straight from one angle but curved from another. I also wanted to place the viewing spot off center from the middle of the room simply because I thought it would be cool and an extra challenge. I sketched ideas in my sketchbook but I also did tests on a lemon and a paper ball to see how perspective would work on a sphere. I bisque-fired it before applying underglaze and clear glaze. I sketched the design onto the sphere with pencil first and dabbed away the extra graphite with a damp sponge before applying underglaze. I also checked online to make sure graphite would safely burn away completely in the kiln. I applied satin clear glaze to most of it in the places that are inside, but the window glass is about 5 or 6 layers of glossy clear glaze. It didn’t turn out as visually stark as I would have liked but the texture is definitely different. had seen panoramic spheres before but all the ones I had seen I had the POV point at some sort of central location, such as the center of a room or the middle of an intersection. I wanted to do something different, and presumably the effect would still work if the POV point was closer to one wall than another. Like with my poor man’s kintsugi from last submission, my artistic process has a certain level of masochism that is unique for this class because it should be fun and laid back. A panoramic sphere is already difficult, why would I do a complicated perspective on top of that? Also the perspective was already a challenge, so why did I choose a needlessly complicated subject like a kitchen? For that matter, why did I do any of this at all since I hate glazing? Questions for the ages.
Dimensions: (L)4 x (W)4 x (H)4 (Inches)
Weight: 1 Lbs.
School: El Camino Fundamental High - Sacramento, CA
Teacher: Sean Bill
Exhibition: The 28th Annual National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition


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Clay Vendor: Other, IMCO
Wheel Vendor: Shimpo
Tool Vendor: Other, Alpha Fired Arts
Glaze Vendor: Amaco
Kiln Vendor: Skutt
Firing Temp: Low Fire
Atmosphere: Oxidation
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