Grip form_Dynamic hand sketches

Experiment

Dynamic hand sketches. The three objects represent the outset of my exploration, based on the structure of the grip, and how the interaction between positive and negative forms occurs in dialogue with the plastic clay.

Material

Ceramic

Craft

Ceramics and pottery-making

General Technique

Forming and shaping

Specific Technique

Modeling

Properties & Qualities

Application

Sculpture

Qualities

3D Textured / tactile

Colour

White

Sample Information

Date of creation

March 7th, 2013

Dimensions

Hand format

Culture & Context

Human forms are part of the empirical material (data) for my doctoral thesis, ‘Grip to get a grip of form. Concrete and abstract comprehension of form’ (2020).

Credits

Craft Maker

Astrid Heimer OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Photographer

Astrid Heimer

Practitioner

Astrid Heimer

I am a ceramicist, and the sculptures I make are figurative as well as abstract.

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