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Reclining Flowers 1997 Reclining Flowers    2001
  Technical statement

    Ceramics are normally coloured with the help of glazes or slips, In my view, however, only a very restricted range of colour and texture can be achieved with these conventional techniques. Ceramic glazes cannot produce such vivid colours as bright red , orange or purple, I have developed a special technique for colouring the surface of my pieces. The surface of my objects consists of several layers of pure pigment, which are mixed with fine sand and fixed onto the clay by means of synthetic resin.
    The objects are sculptured from different hand-thrown and hand formed parts, After firing in an electric kiln, 1250℃, the ceramic elements are joined and glued together. The glued areas are smoothed with two component artificial marble fillers.
    The work is colored from inside to outside little by little. The coloured fine sand will joint the parts completely.
    The "Fossil Forms" are based on a sort of spiral shale. I would first throw a wet clay cylinder, then wind some rope around is and push the clay with my hands from the inside towards the outside. The next stage would be to cut out the bottom of the cylinder and put the spiral-shaped object down sideways, which transformed the original pot or vase into a sculptural form...
    I would subsequently remove the rope and spray water onto the clay which would be still wet ,so that its surface would erode and holes would appear where the clay was thin .
    Besides I design the sketches of huge monumental stylized flowers on the computer.
    The aim was to arrive at very straight and clear working drawing.
    Thanks to the 3D functions I obtained good visualisings of different possibilities and combinations of the cross-sections and side views of the object, in order to look at it from all sides.
    The monumental stylized flower" Reclining Flower" is built up from various elements, which, after glazing, is assembled with cement glue. The frame is made from concrete steel armature. In order to accentuate the ceramic petals and the parts they are framed with black seam.

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