Ceramic foundation course

The scale up project

March 2022 - July 2022

With my interest in these explorations in clay, I decided on attending “Exploring Art and Craft of Clay” a 4-month foundation course at Claystation studio in Bangalore which incorporates all the hand building and wheel throwing techniques, surface decoration methods, principles of glaze application as well as studio management skills.

This project brief was to create a scaled-up project on any topic but with a minimum height of 13 inches. Personally, I believe the changes in the world along COVID-19 led me to the path of clay. I decided to create a lamp that conceptually shows the positive impacts of COVID on my life and extract that idea as a part of the proposal. The lamp thus used multiple elements that begin to form links to the period of lockdown. For eg, the masks and the virus culminate in a flower made of masks. Also indicating a new beginning. The method used in making this lamp was a hand-building method and is made with the help of stoneware clay.