I finished the Aberrant Warthog Pot back in February. It's a sculpted warthog head on a tower of small clay cups. I thought the cups were too primitive and also, they didn't fit together well and the tower seemed unstable. I made a new pot for the sculpture. The form is slightly less crude and the glaze came out very nice (although I missed a few spots on the inside). The head still doesn't fit right.
The original pot consisting of (barely) nested cups on the left and the new pot on the right:
Inside of the pot showing the places I missed with the glaze and the lovely irregularity of the rim:
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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.