{"id":429,"date":"2012-07-13T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2012-07-11T23:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T05:03:51","slug":"outside-influence-oceans-in-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/outside-influence-oceans-in-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside Influence: Oceans in clay"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ocean is a an incredible source of\u00a0 inspiration for form, color and just a general sense of alienness. And who isn’t intriqued by the strange and unique?<\/p>\n

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Melanie Ferguson<\/a> is a ceramicist who focuses on the strange and unique in organically themed pieces. This is from her 2012 “Tossed Ashore” series of which there are only a couple posted on her Facebook <\/a>page at this time, but I am checking back regularly awaiting any new work. She has also explored plant and pods forms where her works becomes incredibly colorful.\u00a0 I get quite mesmerized by the bursting, melting and growing shapes she creates, not to mention the incredible surface texture. Her approach could so easily be translated to polymer that I keep stopping to read the description of her work to be sure she didn’t actually stray from mineral clays.<\/p>\n

Do take some time to peruse her work<\/a>. It will fill your mind with the pure beauty of nature’s forms as if you’ve never seen them before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ocean is a an incredible source of\u00a0 inspiration for form, color and just a general sense of alienness. And who isn’t intriqued by the strange and unique? Melanie Ferguson is a ceramicist who focuses on the strange and unique in organically themed pieces. This is from her 2012 “Tossed Ashore” series of which there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,134,46,135,136,12,11,133],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-bowl","tag-ceramics","tag-melanie-ferguson","tag-ocean","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-vessels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-6V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}