Assignment 7 & 8Â - Ceramics Undercover
My fascination with the act of sewing and the sewing machine itself runs inherently deep into the realms of my childhood, my upbringing, and the basis of how I place value on material “things” in my life. Throughout the past few months I have been exploring and studying the act of stitching into the ceramic material and form. Through this exploration, I found myself challenged and stumped. Often at times I found myself wishing the process were as simple as sewing into fabric, without planning your holes to thread in advance and always having the ability to rip a stitch and start all over with a clean slate.
For this project I looked to the items surrounding me, items that made the modern-day process of sewing to be quite easy and organized. I have always viewed the spool of thread to be a powerful symbol and the essential variable to most things sewn. The clay component of this piece is the spool itself. Traditionally spools were made of wood, and eventually mass-produced with plastic. The “larger-than-life” clay spool has been wrapped in yarn, the same yarn that has been stitched into the corresponding dishes placed next to the spools in the second photograph.














