The upcoming few posts will most likely be a series of in progress photos, thoughts, and comments...Currently I'm still decorating greenware. I've done some slip inlay and some underglaze painting on bone dry ware. Basically, the idea is that this lowest layer will reflect the historical Egypt. Nearly every piece features a phrase or set of words in Egyptian Hieroglyphs (I spent the last year learning to read and write Middle Egyptian).
After the bisque firing I will be layering multiple glazes on each piece. Some areas will have transparent glazes and others more opaque glazes. It's all experimentation at this point. After the cone 6 glaze firing I'm going to apply decals of images from the January/February 2011 Egyptian Revolution and decals of actual Tweets that were posted during that time period and fire at 018 (The Tweets have been scanned from the book Tweets from Tahrir). One of the basic concepts is the element of communication: pottery to Tweets. Another is the element of weapons and parallels between historical events and those of the modern conflicts. History really does repeat itself.
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