Fun Challenges in Mixing Bowls

摘要

The impetus for my dough bowls came from boredom.I had been making large serving trays using drape molds,but the predictability of molded forms had started to feel lifeless.I needed to inject some fun challenges into my making process,so I combined the simple yet enlivening techniques of coil building and reductive carving to make these unique forms.Inspiration for the shape of these bowls came from historical American and African wooden bowls and troughs.Though the majority of these old forms are rectilinear,I was drawn to those in the less common oval form.My expertise as a woodworker allowed me to glean how the wooden forms were made.I saw the reductive actions of hollowing and scraping wood to be analogous to ribbing and compressing clay.