Ideas for ceramic piece

 

After looking through my old photographs and developing ideas for a ceramic piece, I began sketching from my own images of breastfeeding. I tried to capture the pose and connection between mother and child before gradually simplifying the forms. As I reduced the image further, I experimented with continuous-line drawings and began focusing on shape rather than detail. My aim is not to create a realistic sculpture, but to capture the feeling of closeness, comfort and connection between mother and baby. Looking at the sketches, I am particularly interested in the negative spaces created between the figures and how these could translate into a hollow ceramic form. This links back to my interest in Bruno Catalano's sculptures and the way empty space can become just as important as the solid form itself. At this stage, these are simply exploratory drawings, but they are helping me think about how I might create an abstract ceramic sculpture that suggests a mother feeding her child without revealing every detail.