earthenware

Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery which has normally been fired below 1200°C. Porcelain, bone china and stoneware, all fired at high enough temperatures to vitrify, are the main other important types of pottery.

Earthenware comprises "all primitive pottery whatever the color, all terra-cottas, most building bricks, nearly all European pottery up to the seventeenth century, most of the wares of Egypt, Persia and the near East; Greek, Roman and Mediterranean, and some of the Chinese; and the fine earthenware which forms the greater part of our tableware today."
Earthenware, when fired, is opaque and non-vitreous, soft and capable of being scratched with a knife.

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t.e. 218 subterranean formation

The project is a research led investigation, using the tools, process, and soil / clay to inform the realised object. By allowing the material itself to be extracted and manipulated on site using set tools and processes, the clay informs its own aesthetic, creating a dialogue between the finished aesthetic, history of the location, and the process that was used. The process informs the clay and the clay informs the process. The ‘decoration’ becomes the marker of how and where it was created. This dialogue created between the tensions of the object and its creation allow us to explore the intricacies of the relationship between ourselves and the clay in which the object has been born, to pare back and strip the decoration to its most natural form, our processes will facilitate the clay to express its own identity. Traditionally clay is dug out of the ground, refined and then shaped one way or another by a craftsman. In the finalised object you can therefore often see much of the craftsman and his energy.
The artists wanted to turn this process upside down and remove the individual from the material, where the finalised object is a result of a controlled uncertainty.

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