Sara Carone (Brazil)
Plate, d. 28.5 cm (11 ¼ in.), 1991.
Surface: Resist patterns with adhesive Splice tapes and slip and glaze masking.
Low-fired, raku, oxidation.
This plate was thrown using a low-fire raku clay and, once burnished, was carefully bisqued in a reducing atmosphere to establish various surface tonalities. Thin
auto-adhesive splice tapes (used normally for design layout of printed circuit boards) were added in a controlled linear pattern, and the overall surface was coated with first a kaolin/water mixture, and then an alkaline frit. Their combined and controlled thickness determines subsequent crackle and dot patterns, as well as halo effects. After studied placing in the raku kiln in order to promote varied surface effects, the piece was slowly fired to 850°C (1562°F) and once cooled to 520°C (968°F), bags of sawdust were carefully inserted. After cooling, the masking glazes were removed to reveal subtle colour effects, and black lines where the splice tapes were applied.
Before working in ceramics, I drew, painted and made etchings and metal sculpture, and was drawn to Post-Impressionist painting and early 20th- century movements such as fauvism, cubism and expressionism. My work in ceramics does not aspire to functionalism, but rather to the making of objects of pure form in a personal idiom.
Matthias Ostermann
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