Collaborating With Uncertainty: Towards Visual Complexity
Confluence is quite a good title for this gathering of people from all around the world sharing a common aesthetic language and approach to making.
It implies a joining together and mixing with each other on a personal and professional level.
It is an inclusive term…
Given the current state of our world, inclusivity is more important than ever.
For groups like ours, inclusivity has another benefit.
It builds diversity within the ecology of our ideas and practice that benefits us all.
I have titled my presentation Collaborating with Uncertainty – Towards Visual Complexity. Woodfiring is arguably the most uncertain of making methods, however uncertainty and visual complexity can be experienced in other ways of working with clay.
This talk comes out of my research and thinking undertaken over the last four years whilst completing a PhD. It is an attempt to condense a number of ideas so please bear with me as I lay out a number of pieces of a jigsaw that I hope will form a picture in the end.
Being in the world means noticing. Noticing such things as rock, texture, pattern, colour, tactility, curiosity, memory.
Responding
The material qualities of our world surround and strongly influence our everyday lives whether we are aware of them or not. These material qualities of an object are what we experience when we interact with it using our bodily senses.
The material qualities of a could include its size, its colour, its weight or heft
