Bone China Autopsies by Beccy Ridsel
Fine china should be handled with care, as demonstrated by artist/sculptor Beccy Ridsel earlier this year. “This work was an installation, set up as a lab experiment in progress, complete with scalpels, lab coats, needles and a microscope. Piles of dicarded, cut-up craft objects lay about the desk, some with their innards seeping out, others rearranged, Frankenstein-style.” The purpose of Ridsel’s experiment was to find the point at which craft transforms into art, a problematic division she discusses in a post on Yatzer. She notes at the end of the article, “I am currently working on domestic variations of these pieces; the irony of [this] isn’t lost on me.”
[via Asha Beta]
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
This is freaking awesome! I want whole set!
December 23rd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Haha how playful. Wish I was that clever.
“The purpose of Ridsel’s experiment was to find the point at which craft transforms into art”
Reading the rest of that via the link provided I can’t say I agree with the sentiment. Mainly because it’s ceramics like the above that seem to always be found, discussed, and theorized about at archeological digs and the like. If anything it goes beyond art and becomes a cultural time capsule. A bit of DNA from a whole age. I don’t think most just think of it as a craft so much as thing craft and art are pretty much the same thing. The usage of “arts & crafts” is too deceptive to take seriously at face value these days.
December 27th, 2009 at 9:57 am
oooh, awesome!