After my show at the 410 Project in August I took a step back from my work to look at what I was doing wrong. I felt that I was using glazes to cheat texture. I would make the glaze then let the kiln do the work to texture it. There was no real craftsmanship in the process. So for most of the next year, the work I will be putting out will not have glaze. I feel it covers up the true beauty of porcelain as well. This piece (the first of my capsule series) is high fire porcelain with a Terra Sigillatta/Black Copper Oxide mix burnished over the surface. As to the form, im not completely sure as to what their meaning is yet. i have been using them as figures of Attraction, Love, Separation and Divorce. We will see what they end up becoming. I love the feeling of a new body of work. The ideas are in such an infant form in my head. I have what I think is a set idea in my head and then 10 minutes later a new form or idea pops in my head that changes the entire vision of it all. well, I'll talk to you soon.
All Good Things,
Mike Cimino
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