Up until half a year ago, I was merely a consumer of ceramics and not a creator. While I had dabbled in hand built pottery during a high school art course, I had never seriously spent time considering the infinite possibilities that ceramics offer as a creative outlet. After getting my hands dirty again a few months ago, there was no going back. Pottery is such a different art form compared to photography, which in the digital age has become sterile and mess-free (no risk here of splashing or inhaling hazardous chemicals while developing my jpegs).

Having spent some time concentrating on developing photography skills, I found pottery accessed a completely different creative side in me. Photography is all about capturing and fixing in time something that already exists — light, objects, space. By contrast, pottery is about changing, over time, an existing, usually formless, material into something else entirely.

I have to say it’s very addictive.

CATEGORY: Insider
POSTED by blue bean	April 17, 2012