After the performance of time collection, there are pieces of the clock, so I thought use different parts of it to make new things and take the project further. The first bit I use is the cog. Thus, I want to use cog to represent a piece of time which actually is a piece of clock, at the beginning I used the clock to represent the time, so it makes sense. The cogs are so small from that clock, then I use ceramic to extend the form.
As you can see, the first form I made it does look like cog, however, I feel I could make a better one more looks like a real cog.
The second one I made it bigger and also with textures, it definitely looks better than the first one.
Put it on the wheel and spin it, feels like it works now. Then there's an artist's perform art gives me inspiration.
Ai Weiwei – Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995
Why Ai did this perform?
"It can churn your stomach to see such a precious artifact destroyed, but the work paid off in both cultural and symbolic value. The story behind the artwork is as fascinating as the dropping itself. You see, it enraged most antique collectors, but Ai was out to remind them about the evils of the Mao regime.
It was a crystal-clear depiction of what the Communist regime was doing to the elites. Ai countered the outrage from people by describing what General Mao used to tell them:
The only way of building a new world is by destroying the old one."
So the cogs I made representing time, which is the past, so if I destroy the cog ( smash it) means I destroy the past then I could make my future. Using another way to explain my idea is, saying goodbye to your past and focus on your future.
So I plan to make more ceramic cogs and smash them by the end, like a ceremony to say bye bye to the past. How many I gonna make? How to glaze them? Which location I gonna do it? Let us see.
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