Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
My Studio Art honors project identifies a parallel between the standards of ceramic beauty and human beauty. Symmetry, a smooth surface, perfect curves, weightlessness and clear functionality all contribute to the “perfect” ceramic vessel and similarly the “ideal” human form. Abundance is a rebellion against these standards. I investigate how ceramic forms can appear heavy and drooping under gravity, and how bumpy textures and speckled glazes intensify forms’ deviation from the standard. Alluding to fatness, my project took the final form of semi-figurative wall-hanging ceramic protrusions, which serve to disrupt the flat, smooth, white gallery wall with overflowing color, texture and weight.
Recommended Citation
Berry, Lana, "Abundance" (2022). Art and Art History Honors Projects. 17.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/art_honors/17
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Comments
Thank you to Summer Hills-Bonczyk for supporting and guiding me through this project, and thank you to all the artists who inspired me with their work about fatness.