Unexpected Item
In Ceramics
An object in the shape of a supermarket shopping basket made with extruded square section tubes of earthenware clay, fired and glazed with a reflective copper glaze.
Glazed Earthenware, 21cm h, 14cm w 19cm d
Here’s how Unexpected Item evolved. It started out as one similar idea (a round fruit basket) that morphed into another related version. The basket idea became a super-market shopping basket, which is one of the icons that’s used throughout the internet for an e-commerce shopping basket or cart
I started by making drawings of it, then I made paintings and collages then I made some small maquettes or sketches in clay. Then I made this slightly larger version shown above.
Below are a couple of the maquettes in front of the bigger version.
