Friday 4 June 2010

Lot On My Plate

Here's something a little different. This piece is bound for Milan. It's being shown at a plate show at Miseal Space there. The brief was 'What it means to be South African', so without getting all verbal and heavy, I'll just say it's entitled Handling the Baggage. The ceramic plate is hardly the easiest thing to work on, difficult surface to maintain control of a metal-nibbed dipping pen for example, but it did end up going in the direction I intended, which is all we can ever really hope for.

So here's the plate.