BLUEJEAN

During the first pandemic lockdown, I created a handful of ceramic boot pots as well as a pair ceramic of jeans to accompany them. I surfaced the pants with deep grooves that twist and distort around the form. I was satisfied with the outcome however, I did not accomplish the look and feel of jeans. I felt that the glaze I formulated came out flat and that the textured grooves seemed unintentional; making the overall concept of “jeans” hard to receive. 

I made this pot to push the same idea further but posed myself a question: If my ceramic jeans weren't distinguishable as jeans, could I still represent the concept on a pot and remind the viewer of the original object the idea was based on? BlueJean is the accomplished vision of the surface and glaze texture I attempted a year prior. I distorted the plain cylindrical form more than I did with the pants and I also found, through more glaze testing, that a heavy reduction firing is required to obtain the level of carbon trapping I envisioned.