A Question of Mastery. Defects and Layers

• Autor(a) principal: Frolova, Nadezda
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/150300
• topic: Defects; Layers; Chance; Control; Glazes; Surface; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Outras Engenharias e Tecnologias

This work began with a topic that was interesting and exciting to me: the technology of multiple firing in ceramics and defective glazes. Almost immediately, I thought I knew how to build a testing and scientific research process. My goal was to collect an extensive library of effects and techniques that would meet my expectations, and using this palette, as a painter move directly to the very process of creating art objects. For the study, I chose one defect of my interest - the appearance of craters in the glaze driven by Silicon Carbide (SiC) and the dependence of the characters of the craters on the amount of SiC. The project was undertaken to evaluate how crater glazes work with other glazes such as copper red and crystalline glazes in layers, which will provide a variety of glazing textures. In the process of working with defects in glazes, there was an encounter with control, a desire to conform to the outlined plan, followed by the attempt to free myself and follow a more organic process. "Two" fundamental questions emerged on which to base the study of my art practice: 1. What are the layers of process that make up my artistic practice? Who are the participants in this process: the inner values, intuition, the material with which I interact, fire, chance...something else? 2. What role do 'chance and control’ play in my art practice? Trying to find answers to these questions brought me closer to personal understanding about my artistic practice: ● Dealing with uncertainty ● Failure and disappointment ● Empathy for the material ● Trust of fire ● Acting, not just planning