{"id":7089,"date":"2022-02-07T04:42:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T04:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?post_type=project&p=7089"},"modified":"2022-02-07T04:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T04:45:00","slug":"naomi-nierenberg-squiggly-colored-porcelain-200-00","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?project=naomi-nierenberg-squiggly-colored-porcelain-200-00","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Nierenberg \u201cSquiggly\u201d colored porcelain, $200.00"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSquiggly\u201d colored porcelain, 5\u201d H x 7\u201d W x 13\u201d L, 2020
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Working with my hands since early childhood, particularly with clay, has been a source of pleasure and on occasion, great fulfillment.\u00a0 <\/span>When I engage in this media, I get so absorbed with the process, that the \u201creal world obligations\u201d disappear.<\/p>\n

My inspiration is based upon nature and its surroundings with the commonality of how mathematics and mathematical formulas are continuously found in nature.\u00a0 <\/span>The sequence of sunflowers seeds, pineapples, and many other magnificent natural orders have very specific progressions.\u00a0 <\/span>This has had a profound influence on my work, which for the last few years have been carved and\/or hand built.\u00a0 <\/span>Math was my major in college and my college thesis was \u201cMathematics in Nature\u201d. This apparent connection between my clay works and nature has evolved over the years, and I truly believe this is related to my higher education.<\/p>\n

From the beginning of working with clay, the process of carving or distorting clay has been a priority.\u00a0 <\/span>In 2011, after an almost 25 year absence, I once again became a ceramic student.\u00a0 <\/span>Working at the wheel became a challenge, physically, so hand building became an avenue to explore with intensity.\u00a0 <\/span>Whether I hand-build, roll a slab, or extrude the clay, the smooth surface calls me to distort, carve, or bend it.\u00a0 <\/span>Initially I gently carved into the clay with dental tools; however I find that using carved textures and designs are more intriguing.\u00a0 <\/span>My carvings have gotten more intense and more daring, as I have continued this method \u2013 from light indentations to deeply cut designs as exemplified in my works. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of my works have been electric fired, however during the last couple of years, almost all of my work has been soda fired with remarkable results. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The exploration into the ceramic world is most challenging with the many phases a single piece has to endure \u2013 designing, creation, firing, and then the final stage of surface treatment and firing again.\u00a0 <\/span>There are so many stages which one can fail, however the test is perseverance. It\u2019s worth the effort.<\/p>\n

More recently i have been exploring working with colored porcelain after taking a workshop on colored clay.\u00a0 <\/span>This has opened a whole new venue with lots of room for imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSquiggly\u201d colored porcelain, 5\u201d H x 7\u201d W x 13\u201d L, 2020 Working with my hands since early childhood, particularly with clay, has been a source of pleasure and on occasion, great fulfillment.\u00a0 When I engage in this media, I get so absorbed with the process, that the \u201creal world obligations\u201d disappear. My inspiration is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[74],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-7089","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-birds-eye-worms-eye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/7089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7092,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/7089\/revisions\/7092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_category&post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_tag&post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}