A photo of a students work in the ceramic disiple show in aportfolio on the day of the ceramics workshop which I greatly enjoyed. I loved this piece of work as the creature in the centre is extreamily intresting with its unusual and inaginative features. I alo like the pattern of the different marks in the background, their plainness highlights the creativeness of the creature.

 I love these pieces as they have unusual shapes.

 The kiln where the ceramic pieces are "fired" ie dried out.

Having seen the ceramics i was very interested in trying out some 3D work. I decided to cast a coffee cup and my keys as they are items with are permanently within m space and indeed everyone else's space; however my attempt at casting the coffee cup did not go well. on my first attempt, I accidentely got plaster stuck within the space underneath the cup which meant I wouldn't be able to remove it and it was necessary to do so to fill the mold and complete the cast. my second attempt, the layer of clay I made an layer over the first half of the mould did not set right; half was still extreamally wet but half was extreamally dried out as it was to thinly applied in that articular area, This meant I couldnt make the second half of the mould as the plaster would stick to the other half and then I would not be able to fill the inside and create the cast.

My cast of the keys, which I thought turned out pretty cool.

 My set of photographs of inside locker doors.
Following on from my sketchs of inside my locker as part of my space within shared space I decided to  continue on and look at others use their space within a shared spaced.

A little 3D piece I made on the lockers.

More sketches of my space:

  My studio space

My locker

The space inside my locker filled with my stuff.

The space I have in the shared cuboard in my apartment.

Painting of the items on my windowsill
 and chalk pastel image of the items on my                                                                                                                                                                                                windowsill

I am now looking at movement through my space. I used air dough to create little figurines to move around with my "space" i.e my boxes.

my sketch of my idea for a little stock motion animation.

I used air dough to create the figurines but i discovered it wasn't the best material as it didn't stick to well together. The head, arms and legs kept falling off a few of them so I ended up with a pile of discarded figures!

Thankfully though enough stayed together for me to fill the boxes.

 My Animation.

My first year project is "To Sense My Space", very broad, which is good, but found it tough at first as I had so many different idea's. I soon realised though that I was going too deep looking into the project so had to pull back and and look at how I actully sense my space. I thought of each of the different spaces around me; there is my personal private space in my head, my personal surrounding space which only close friends and family would come into, my work/ studio space where i share the space with other people but have my own space with in that space and then there is public space that you share with everyone. So I started making boxes to represent each space and how I sence each of them.

 Sketches of my idea's for my boxes.

 Sticking on plastic spikes to the inside on my first box: personal private space.

 

  As I soon found out the hot glue gun was not strong enough to secure the spikes so i had to re-stick them with nomal super glue.

 My little figure for the box made out of air dough.

 

 Using fairy lights as a light source to the box.

 

 Carving an indent into the side of the board to sit the fairy lights into in order to be able to finish the box without damaging the wiring of the lights.

 

 

 After re-thinking my personal private space (that being the private space of my head) I realised creating a visual of my sence of space wasn't going to give enough of a sence to the viewer so I decided to create a sence of touch from my box so I glued black paper and tore it so the viewer could put their hand in (or still look in if they wish) and feel how I feel in my own space.

 I've also been sketching my phyical personal space

 And my surrounding space which I share.