Making Tetrax in GBP, Pondicherry 2010

The mold was set, and clay was ready and made into a hump.

I made slabs and made the piece on the mold.

It took me three days working 9am-8pm and then falling dead to sleep.

Well I got something done.

Making Tetrax in GBP, Pondicherry 2010

After a long time, I am updating information about whats been happening in my work scenario.

Apart from one group exhibition at Dakhinchitra(chennai), I very much kept glued to GBP, the studio where I work.

My friends from Pondy, beleive that I dont stay in the town of Pondicherry!!

I suppose I am camouflaged ;)

Over this period at the studio,

there were three students; march through september, by the end of which they had learnt wheel work and hand building etc.; made a good body of work and done 3 firings in a 25cft kiln and 1 in the 70cft car kiln.

Rebecca, from Switerland was here for half a month to make two large sculptural works, and she also demonstrated for us, her way of pit-firing.

the production pottery is working in its own pace, mostly, firing once a month in the 70cft car kiln.

since January2010, a group of us have been working on a project of making ceramic pieces for a sculpture garden. there have been several large works made in clay, bisque fired, glazed and high fired in the 140cft car kiln. a few of us have been involved in assisting it, in all its stages of making.

One of the work for this project is my tetrax. I have prepared a visual story of its making for you, which I plan to upload part by part.

I hope that you would be able to link up the loose threads .... ty.

...taking you back to the time when my 58" clay piece collapsed while in making; I took to a different approach in making the 4 feet size tetrax.

I decided to make a solid clay piece and take the mold from it.

as it is a bilaterally symmetrical form, most noticeably does not have a flat base..,

I decided to make half the solid form. and then, make the mold.

Shilpataru Art Event 2010

To be inaugurated by Shri Manoj Das (eminent writer) on 1st march at 5 pm. at INTACH Heritage house, 62, Rue Aurobindo, Pondicherry.
Followed by book launch 'Douces heures de Pondicherry' written by COUMAR ANANDA and illustrated by T.MURUGESH.

2nd - 7th march 10am - 1pm and 3pm - 6pm is the Exhibition 'Nature and Art' with Art Fair.
participating artists are AKMAL HUSAIN, ANTRA SINHA, AUDREY WALLACE-TAYLOR, S.DANASEGAR, KEIKO MIMA, KIRTI CHANDAK, P.MARKANDAN, ROBI GANGULI, D.SARAVANAN, R.VASANTHAKUMARAN


apart from this

on 6th march at 8pm "Stone Strings Metal Winds" a musical offering by ANDREAS, AURELIO and NADAPREM.

on 7th march at 8pm "1 in 1" a performance by G.GOBI and S.DANASEGAR


If you are in or around Pondicherry, please do come by. Thank you!

making tetrax 4ft, GBP

my tetrax, this one which i am making 58" x 58" x 58" in size,yesterday evening, i was just about to complete this piece. as u may see in the first two pictures.
today morning it just collapsed, it kept growing a crack on its two sides.....
and i am back to square one!
have to remake it.

making Tetrax 4ft, GBP.

After the end of two weeks of work on the Tetrax. Few days to go, then i shall make a mould in Plaster of Paris.

making Tetrax 4ft, GBP

the tetrax....in a week~! Ashwini is peeping in looking for some treasure! ha h aa ha. :)

Tetrax 4ft. @GBP, Pondicherry

Exhibition is over!! next what?

Now, its time to make a tetrax (name of my sculptural form, i have been working with for a few years). I have made some tetrax's 18" size, 3"size and three feet size. This time i am making a four feet tetrax!! :)

the black form is a same size mock piece, made out of mica sheets.

a base mould has been carved ( i was working on it over the month of November) and now the work is clay starts....

and this is how it looks after three days of work with clay and jute cloth!!