COILING - (survival sculpture)

coiling is a technique in ceramics that involves rolling sausages of clay or terracotta in long lines, and placing them carefully around the parameter object that you are trying to create. You follow the shape of the vase or sculpture you are trying to create with the coils, round and round and told Scott just completed. This is a very good technique if you’re wanting to create a larger scale vase a sculpture, it’s messy and want to be as neat as a vase created on the pottery wheel. But it is much easier and you get more control over the finished piece.

To create the womb vase, I experimented using a coiling technique for the first time. It took a long time as every three coils you put down, you must wait for them to dry or harden enough to be able to support more coils on top of it. As he plays down the coils you smooth down the ones that you have already placed, and carry on until you vase is completed.

To go out word and make a vase widen as you go you put the coils on the outer edge of the coils you have already leaned down, and to go inward you put the coils on the inside of the edge of the coils you have already leaned down.

I thoroughly enjoyed making this vase and I’m definitely going use a coiling technique again. I continued until the vase was at the correct height and shape that I wanted it, then I let harden just enough to cut a section out of the front to be the window into the womb to the silicone baby.

I made two holes in the back of the vase where their silken placentae would be attached, find to do this with wire just as I did with the test sample baby in a vase.

Because of the time limit I did not have time to wait for the hall vase to dry before displaying it as part of my sculpture, and said I used it semidry but I was happy with the outcome anyway. The colour, the dark brown of the terracotta worked quite well with the rest of my piece I am happy with the overall visual appearance of it, when put together with the rest of the work.