A few weeks ago I bought a ceramic extruder, with the intention of extruding clay piping that would transport hot glass. That project spawned my current endeavor of building a glaze furnace as a performative object. Which started out as a cylinder of extruded hollow tubes, that I molded the tops into a dome for the structure.
I was concerned that the top of the glaze furnace would not be able to with stand the thermo stress of firing without cracking. So I decided to cut out tiles. This pattern I first encountered in art history, is from the roof of San Carlo of the Four Fountains in Rome.
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| Interior view of San Carlo of the Four Fountains dome. I love how the pattern is altered to create a dramatic upward lift. Image courtesy of wiki commons. |
Since having the chance to see the church in person the pattern has reappeared in my work many times. Always as an under current but definitely reoccurring. Here are the tiles cut out and rearranged.
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| The extruded sections are visible both on the interior of the cylinder as well as cross sections. |
A couple shots of replacing the tiles. Once I had a couple areas that spanned the arch, I could remove other tiles to test the fit. I am not sure how the history behind the pattern will play into the work. In a couple mental variations the religious architecture history plays an important role. In other drawings the tiles are a means to an end. I am sure that the end result will be some merger of ideas that I could not have conceived before I began the project.
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