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Modular Ceramics

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MOD ULAR ceramics Quattro,  cast porcelain, sgraffito I've been casting geocentric vessels in porcelain for a few years and frankly was getting bored by the monotonous process of removing the same form from a mold day after day.  I found that I was taking the cast forms and flipping them upside down, turning them on their sides, stacking them in various ways, trying to exercise my creativity.  This was an act of creative play that I thought could add variety and challenge to the casting process of making multiples.  The problem was the forms that I was casting couldn't connect in exacting ways.  So I thought if I made a form that had uniform and consistent shapes that would connect to themselves, I could combine multiples to make larger and more complex forms.  It worked!  I'm simply titling them by the quantity of modules that it took to make them.   Uno,  cast porcelain, sgraffito Dos,  cast porcelain, sgraffito Dos,  cast porcelain, sgraf