威尼斯Venice

26 Dec 2014 (Boxing Day)

Vicky's eyes - Venice

Art and Design newsletter Autumn - winter 2014

Art and Design newsletter November2014

Bath Spa University Research 

My news 

Ministry of Education Award for PhD student
Wen-HSI Chen (Vicky) is a full-time practice-led PhD student in ceramics at the school Art and Design at Bath Spa University. She has been award an MOE (Ministry of Education) scholarship from Taiwan for two years, from April 2013 to March 2015. The scholarship amount is US 16,000 in total per annum. 

Her PhD research is focusing on Taiwanese cultural identity through contemporary ceramic practice. She is concentrating on colonial and post – colonial powers and how these effect Taiwanese circumstance.
Her website is http://wenhsichenceramics.weebly.com 

My Raku Firing day 樂燒

I really enjoyed creating the surface incident arising from the raku process.
                                             

Before the cleaning process

                                               After the cleaning process

I love the hole in my work.

This damaged  part creates more stories in the context of my work .

I weared a face mask 

It is made in my homeland- Taiwan

How exciting to see 'Made in Taiwan' in the UK.

                                               

                                                    Rich teaches us how to look at the gas pressure

In the beginning, I felt a little bit scary to open the kiln at 1000 degrees(up),

but I soon realized that I loved the color of the kiln.

'Orange'

Putting the piece into the wood chip 

Fresh wood chips

19 Dec (Friday) 2014 

工作室小照片

陶瓷製作的過程中,充滿著許多有毒物質,

自己每次在配釉料的時候,都特別的小心,

戴著防毒面具般的口罩,手套.

每一個工作,都有職業傷害

而我自己知道

走在陶瓷創作這條路上

傷的都是內傷.

唯有學會保護自己的身體

才可以長久地走在創作這條路上

設定窯燒的燒製

也是我每天必做的事情

每天不斷地做測試,燒出自己夢想中的顏色和質感

靠著就是不斷地練習

沒有別的,也無法偷懶

每一次打開窯爐都是一個驚喜

我喜歡這種感覺

陶瓷,就是一項需要時間漫漫沈澱的手工藝

唯有一直不停的練習

做測試

努力

才可以找到適合自己的顏色和質感

：）