My Addition to the Whisper Gallery Initiative, In Process
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Have you come across the incredible Whisper Gallery series that @mrblinddraw has been running for the past month? I highly recommend at least scanning the collaborative thread of impressive and highly creative images that are coming to life!
If you’ve ever played the game “Telephone” as a kid, then this concept will immediately make sense. You have a circle of people and you start with one word or phrase and whisper it to the next person who whispers it to the next and so on. By the time it reaches the other end of the group, it’s gone through many evolutions and is completely different. As a kid I always found the changes hilarious and would often be giggling excitedly when the words reached me.
The Whisper Gallery Initiative is based on this game but with art making. @mrblinddraw came up with this pretty ingenious idea of having a group of artists play off each other's work in collaboration. Each has a week to make a work of art that responds the the previous evolution.
The first week @upheaver kicked off week one with making the “seed” art piece from a poem.
Dreams of Titan, 2018 by @upheaver
Week 2 @paolobeneforti responded to @upheaver ’s work of art with his own painting:
My Untitled Artwork, 2018 by @paolobeneforti
Week 2 @aksinya made a piece in response to @paolobeneforti’s painting:
Nothing Else Matters, 2018 by @aksinya
Next for week 3 @voronenka responded to @aksinya’s art:
Flickering Light, 2018 by @voronenka
Week 4 is ME!! I'm right in the thick of making my piece and thought I'd give you a peak into what I'm making.
I began by letting @voroneka’s painting marinate in my mind for a day or so and an idea came together. Looking at @voroneka's figure, I see her dozing back in forth in that thick dreamy feeling between sleep and awake. In this space, our psyche plays with reality using dream logic to match images from both our conscious and unconscious.
My piece will use @voroneka's imagery loosely as the composition of the consciousness. The woman with her of dream logic combines this framework with a vision, a feeling of who she sometimes feels herself to be- a powerful, energy filled, unapologetic animal in the forest.
As you may know I work in clay and have a history of showing my process. I plan to use a combination of glaze painting and 3-dimensional elements to make a sort of collage-like piece. First I made a slab of clay using a white earthenware and added little frame like edges. Here I'm smoothing it:
Then I made the shelves with the bottles except they have become sort of plant-like:
Then I made some plants and leaves and will make many more when I am at the glazing stage. I also sketched a line form of the jungle cat . Even though it's very loose, and I may diverge from it, this drawing will help me feel free when glazing.
Last night I fired put it through a slow firing and unfortunately it cracked in many areas and frankly in very strange ways. I can't remember the last time I saw this kind of cracking with a piece before! I was disappointed but also this puts a bit of tension on the timing since I need to have a finished piece by Sunday to meet the timing of the Whisper Gallery so it could be very tight.
I jumped right into making another one, slightly smaller.
On the left is the cracked one and right is the new slab with mini edges:
Fortunately I could use the elements from the cracked piece and made a few changes:
I put it right away in the kiln which is a little scary. Ideally it would dry for a day or 2 first. Keep your fingers croseed that it comes out perfectly tomorrow night and I can glaze it. Stay tuned for more process and completion for this piece!
Whisper Gallery posts:
https://steemit.com/whisper/@mrblinddraw/whisper-gallery-i-starts-today-with-upheaver-seed-inside
https://steemit.com/whisper/@mrblinddraw/whisper-gallery-i-week-iii-art-by-aksinya
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What a cool idea!! I wonder how long the telephone will keep ringing 😜Crossing my fingers and look forward to seeing the finished product.
(if you're looking for someone to nominate next, I'm sure @artzanolino would enjoy the idea)
I think it goes 6 or 8 weeks, can't remember but I agree, it's a great idea!! And thanks for the nominee...I'll pass along the name to @mrblinddraw who btw is in @sndbox with you too.
one of the tests of true art, in my opinion, is how long the person that bought the piece - can live with it without getting bored.
hmmm....very very true!!! I'd say this about anything from a couch to a fork - anything well-designed and well-conceived will have an appeal that grows with time.
yea... how can i miss the :p
This is a hard job, using a pencil we can erase, using paints we can over paint but when it is like yourself using clay and you have such cracks then you have to start from beginning. great art, I am very excited about the result :)
ahh you are so right!! I'm really hoping this makes it through the firing...I'll know tonight :-)
thanks for your support and comment!
I have a friend who does ceramics and she has these unexplainable accidents too from time to time! It makes working with a deadline just that bit more stressful.
Super curious to see the end result!
You are SO right :-))
And by the way, do you know the Dutch ceramic artist Wil Van Blockland? She and I went to school together 30 years ago and she helped me get the opportunity to learn in The Netherlands.
I'm on the edge of my seat.
Don't crack Don't crack Don't crack
Lol, you are so sweet :-)))
Can't wait to see how it turns out!
Talent, talent and more talent.
I can't get tired of your posts.
Plus, I'll try this whisper thing, but mine would be a story or a song or something.
Stay tuned
I almost just blushed, thank you for the extremely kind words!!
Isn't the whisper thing a great idea? it would be great with a story or song too!!!
What a great idea! :) I will definitely start to follow this collaboration! And I am very excited to see your finished piece @natureofbeing! 🌸
thanks, it's so fun!! if you're interested let him know...your work is fab!!
Wow!! What an amazing project! I love the collaboration and evolution of the work! Y'all should make a final collection! :)
That's a really great idea @nickh725, I"m going to share it with all involved, thanks :-))!
WOW. great idea. :)
I was really happy when I read this share. I was interested. my mother had some work with clay in the past ... It was very tense: D is a really difficult art. But it looks great. I'm curious. I will wait for it. you are wonderful.
It's a pretty fun collaboration isn't it!! I know you like collaborative art making also so you may be a good candidate for future whisper galleries. Post on @mrblinddraw's post about this project if so and let him know. Thanks for your support!
I have seen hell lot of art here, now this is something out of my mind absolutely vivacious and so wanting...It's just mind blowing, Running out of words and you are using nature's best gift that is Soil , it's seriously so amazing :)
dirt IS a pretty awesome gift isn't it :-), thanks for your kind support!
Yea the best we can cherish from nature...Human in the end find himself in it only :)