Tracking my Creative Process: Ceramics

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Jan 19

Written By Shannon Borg

This post will track my creative process
through a series of ceramics projects.

Project # 5 : Tablescape

Sea & Shore Tarot Party

Inspiration:

Nudibranchs, Seaworms,
Jacob Bohme, Dionysyus Andreas Freher, William Blake

Project # 3 : Lidded Container

Inspiration:
reliquary caskets, pilgrimage badges,
alchemical athanor furnace

Norway Reliquery casket 16+Casket+copy.jpg

Kanishka_casket,_Asia,_G33_South_Asia.jpg

Metropolitan Musem St James pilgrimage shell.jpg

Project #2: Cup & Bowl Set

Inspiration:
tasseomancy cups, Rayonism,
geometric tea sets & runic bowls

Project #1: Candelabra

Inspiration:
yinyang symbol, Platonic solids, color wheel, alchemical diagrams, early 20thC abstract art

Vasily Kandinsky, Circles Within Circles, 1923

Ancient Yinyang manuscript (finding date)

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Yinyang symbol / seasonal calendar, oldeuropeanculture.blogspot

Dionysius Andreas Freher's image of Jacob Boehme, Nothing and All, 1764

Tracking my Chronological Process:

1. Assignment / Take notes
(assignments give me a DEADLINE which I need!)
2. Sketch out a bunch of ideas & choose one
3. Build a 3D model
4. Research on Google
(in this case, looking at candles)
5. Journal / Sketch for clarity
6. Gather Inspiration images
(from the sources I have been looking at and reading about for a while)

1. Assignment: Make a Candelabra. Kari showed us lots of cool candelabrum (cool word!)

More notes & idea for later: Tree of Life/Yggdrazil/Runes

2. Sketching / Idea emerges: For now, focusing on Platonic solids / Elements

3. Model building: Came home, created a cardboard model

Side view: two interlocking circles / white & black

5. Journal: Friday morning, thoughts about placement

Making them movable / modular

Went to find the 5 "Inspiration" images I had in mind. Too many to choose from!

I hope this information inspires you to try something new, creative and maybe even track your own creative process. It has been enlightening for me.

Shannon Borg

Hi I’m Shannon Borg, and I am an artist and art & business coach. I help artists master their business and transform their mindset so they can confidently share their unique gifts with the world. I also paint abstract landscapes of the shorelines of the San Juan Islands of Washington State, where I live. Let’s connect on Instagram! Find me @shannonborg.

http://shannonborg.com