Make These Holes Your Own
Let’s do something a little different with our participation week today. This image does not contain finished pieces, but rather they are a technique developed by Violette Laporte. You can go here to read about what she was doing and her thoughts, but what I’d love to see is your thoughts, not on the design, but on what you would do with these to finish them. Or, how would you apply this technique to things you already do? Even if it’s not your kind of thing, try to think of a way you could incorporate it into your work.
Also, if you go ahead and actually make something from this, please send me photos! I would love to see what this post might inspire!
And, don’t forget to go back to the previous day’s posts to see how your observations compare to other peoples. There is an amazing amount of similarity in comments. I got to speed read through them all, but we still had technical problems to fix yesterday, and today, I am getting on the road for some time with family and my other half. But you know, I’ll be here every day too!
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The first thing I thought of when I saw these pieces was of a turtle. LOL! I would add the head, legs and tail and a few small sparkly jewels into some of the holes to add some more personality. Would make into a brooch or free standing sculpture.
What a great challenge. So, I was looking at these and thought of a lid to a pot with the interior of the base being bright, but that’s a bit dull and then I thought of the Hungry Caterpillar and imagined a little very colourful creature poking through the hole or making their way from one hole to the next or something growing out of the holes like crazy little pods/funghi/flowers or abstract spirals/sparks like fireworks about to take off. Or putting them back to back and have something tinkling inside, which could be worn as a pendant. Can’t wait to see what others come up with.
Really enjoying thinking about all these pieces this week.
I love holes at the moment having just taken a lovely “holey” workshop with Christine Dumont!
Violette’s holes look at the idea in yet another way. I think l’d stretch the clay and see what happened to these holes – or l’d leave them as they are but add little round beads of bright clay in some or all of the holes.
Perhaps l’d make layered holes but in a concave lentil. Or perhaps l’d use a tool to make pie crust edges to one or other of the holes.
One or more could become used as the leaves of a stylised tree as part of a landscape piece of wall art, with the holes representing fruits
maybe with unsettling thing coming out of them