Nature in Ceramics - Pottery exploration on wheel


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Creator/Artist: Vishal Bhushan Jha

Category: Product Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2014-2016

Source: India,   IDC

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Raja Mohanty


Detailed Description

Traditional wheel pottery is one of the oldest form of arts. It has so many possibilities that in the past 10000 years or so of history, infinite forms and experimentations have been done on it and even now new outcomes keep coming. There is immense possibility of creating something new every time with pottery. This project is my attempt to create interesting fluid forms in ceramics inspired from Nature. The main goal here is to create interesting contemporary forms while maintaining the formal sophistication of wheel pottery “Fursat”, A beautiful Urdu word which means disengagement is something missing in the industrial design scenario currently. We are very requirement oriented people worrying about th project goals and outcomes, always eager to tick the checklist, trying to finish the task. Though trying to maintain quality and perfection this over engagement and level achieving attitude often leads to designer’s soul getting lost in process. Fursat on the other hand is disengagement and more or less is prevalent in an artists work. An artist usually works more on intuitions and less on logic. The reason also might be that there is not much of questioning in an art work about why the artist did a particular thing and why not something else. Also there are several interpretations of some work. This project was an attempt towards an open ended exploration in pottery. There was no set objectives to reach which gave way to more of explorations for own satisfaction and less of doing something for finishing it.