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Aberrant Ceramics is the artwork of Aaron Nosheny, ceramic artist and potter in Tucson, Arizona.
I work in the medium of stoneware clay and make hand-built pottery, sculpture, hamsas, ornaments, masks, and a variety of other forms.
I’m a self-taught autistic artist working in my medium for over twenty years. I like monsters, insects, weird animals, body horror, folk horror, horror comedy, horror in general, Halloween decorations, fast food mascots, kitsch – all of these creep into my work, but there’s really no overarching theme.
I am in love with my medium. I love the process of frantically birthing clay monstrosities, subjecting them to an epic trial by fire, and sending them out into the world.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Meercat Project, Part 2: Bust of Meercat
A few nights ago I made a coil/slab pot that was intended to be part of a vessel with a sculpture of a meercat's head on top. I managed to sculpt a meercat that I'm happy with, but the pot started to collapse when I put the sculpture on top. It may need to dry more or it may be the wrong shape. I tried to give it some contour by having it grow narrower from the base and then wider again, but this may cause the pot to be too structurally weak to hold the weight of a sculpted meercat. I attempted to remedy the problem by adding another strip of clay to the weak, concave part near the base, but I'm not sure if it's going to work. I may need to forget the pot and just make a bust of meercat.
My meercat source page:
My meercat source page:
