Installing 'Fire In The Belly' sculpture, by Robin DuPont & Christine Pedersen.
Channel: Christine Pedersen
Date: 2021-12-10

“Fire In The Belly” --ceramic and metal sculpture by Robin DuPont and Christine Pedersen. This video shows how to install Christine’s sculpted brass and bronze crown onto Robin’s wood-fired ceramic jar. 

Top Tips: please wear gloves to handle the metal, this protects the original surface finish from finger grease. Handle the metal-work on the yellow brass section only—this is the strongest part of the form, and keeps the metal-work level with the top of the pot as you fit it into position. 

Christine’s metal-work has two hand-chased bumps formed into the lower front and rear edges of the brass flame—these are the two resting or connection points onto the clay surface. Robin’s jar has a natural ash-glaze surface, and is textured with smooth depressions—referred to as divots in the video—where the ash-glaze has collected. These depressions were consciously created when Robin coiled and pinched the clay so that the molten ash deposits had spaces to pool and form layers in the glazed surface. The surface colours reflect the different atmospheres and woods—pine, fir, oak, and black poplar—that were stoked during the wood-firing. The metal-work bumps were designed to fit harmoniously into two specific divots. Swirling textures and sinuous forms reflect the artists' inspiration...by uniting the clay and metal forms, wrapping the sculptural metal flames around the pot, the creative spark lives on.

This piece will be part of the Alberta Craft Council “Craft Collaborations” show in November 2021. More details will be posted on their web-site: http://www.albertacraft.ab.ca/.

To find out more about the artists, please follow along on instagram:
@robindupontceramics and @metalisclay.

https://robindupont.com/index.html
http://christinepedersen.blogspot.com/