Flutters - Heart Pendant

*°•.ƸӜƷ• ° 𝐹𝓁𝓊𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 °• ƸӜƷ•°*” ♡ (FKA roughmade lovetrash) ˚.* ̩̩͙˚ *. ̩̩̥͙♡ Eora based stoneware pottery ✩*˚.

I’ve been working with stoneware pottery for ~4 years now and I still lose my mind every time i get to play with wet clay or open a kiln. My practice revolves around an endless obsession with femininity in all its imagery and manifestations. I look at the work of Ana Mendieta, Mel Arsenault, Miki Kim, Ida Lissner, Hito Steyerl, Latika Nehra, Lisa Meinesz and want to swallow it all whole. I look at their works and tumble into fixations with the forms of insects, spines, flowers, shells, swans, stamen, teeth, rings, rocks, of celestial and cellular bodies. And then I sit down with clay and hope to translate even just one of these things. In the studio, at Tafe or Clayground, you can ask anyone and they’ll share every process, story, clay type, glaze combination with you; clay communities can be so beautiful. Pottery has always been something I do for pure delight. I always hope that this delight follows the pieces i make to the places they go.

Handmade heart shaped pendants, secondhand beads from local op shops with all strings and fixtures sourced from Reverse Garbage.

 

The heart shapes are cut from slab rolled clay and then smoothed and refined by hand. They go into the kiln for an initial bisque firing and then again for the glaze firing, vitrifying the muddy clay into rock hard ceramic. All of the beads were sourced from necklaces at op shops. The fixtures are comprised of clasps and miscellaneous metal loops from Reverse Garbage.  They make for weighted companions to carry with you on your day to day.