It is my observation that makers often go out of their way to make things more complicated for themselves. Relishing in the difficulties encountered and needing to be overcome. I am certainly one of these makers: knowingly trying to defy gravity and the will of the kiln gods with many of my pieces.
So when a challenge is set to make a miniature version of our work, unsurprisingly many of us jump at the chance.
Such is the case of Make Mine Miniature: a challenge set to exhibitors by Celebrating Ceramics each year to make a unique miniature piece which is a true representation of their work.
The piece has to fit inside a Cone Box - which measure 7.6 cm by 7.6cm by 15.2cm.
(Pyrometric cones are used by ceramicists to monitor ceramic firings in kilns - measuring temperature, heat-work and the effect of time on the pieces in the kiln.)
I had naively thought that making a tiny version of one of my sculptural vessels would be a much quicker enterprise than at full-scale.
How wrong was I.
Physical scale 1:25
Time scale 1:1