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| firing 15 at a time, the dull slip transforms into ringing ceramic |
The firing of the vessels that were excavated from the banks of the Saline is going well; we are on target to produce 65. The process has been quite long as slip casting and firing requires multiple repetitive steps. But we appear to be on track to have all 65 vessels fired for the upcoming exhibition. Each vessel will represent a shopping cart and be illustrated with an image of a cart and a co-ordinate of a specific location where a cart was found on the Boneyard or Saline. The vessels will be part of a scale representation of the Saline creek at the exhibition and act as markers pinpointing the locations of carts. The vessels will also be gifts to those who adopt-a-cart and help us fund the upcoming exhibition and subsequent illustrated map/booklet. We will be launching a Kickstarter campaign on Sunday the 31st of July with all the details.
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| prototype of illustrated vessel |
The Allman family has been generous enough to allow us to have the exhibition at their fathers former auto body shop. We recently met with Lisa, the daughter of the late Mr. Allman, and she seemed as excited as we are to be part of the project. Thank you Lisa! Below are some conceptual drawings of the exhibition which will feature video projections, a sound installation, the canoes used to remove the carts, and reproductions of the vessel found in the banks of the Saline. The exhibition will have both indoor and outdoor elements, the indoor portion will only be accessible visually through a line that stretches the entire front facade of Allman's. Viewers will have to look through the line that represents the saline to see the exhibition inside. The outdoor portion of the exhibition will be a sculpture garden made from shopping carts that we have transformed into something like gabion baskets, but only sort of. There is much to to but we are very happy to do it.
Allmans Boneyard and, Saline is the official, title of the show
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