In the first of a new series, Studio Visits, in which we’ll be meeting artists, designers and makers in their place of work, LA-based ceramist Raina Lee invites us into her treehouse studio and gallery space for a talk about her creative process.Raina, how did you get into ceramics?“I was a journalist in the tech and video game industry, and I still do some writing now. I happened to be living near a ceramics studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and I decided to take a class. I was enthralled. “It was so exciting to do something physical and work the clay with my hands – I just fell in love with it. Writing is very abstract and a lot of the time you work on something or pitch an idea and it doesn’t work out, by there’s always a physical end result when making ceramics.”
And there’s more creativity involved when you’re not working to a brief?“Yeah, you’re completely controlling the whole process and where you want to go, what direction you want to take. It’s similar to writing in that you’re coming up with and trying out concepts, but the execution is much more open-ended. “I’m really interested in form but the other part of it is that I’m really interested in different kinds of glazed and glazing chemisty. Whenever I open the kiln, there are wildy different results, and I love that.” Working as a writer and ceramicist seems to be a very modern approach to work – do you see any boundaries between the two?“No, I think it’s very normal to work between the two. Most people who sell ceramics do something else too – I have a friend who designs textiles and clothing, another one who is a pastry chef, and one who is a farmer, and they all do ceramics. “Ive worked in technology for a long time and Ive printed punk rock zines, and I think that is the modern condition, where youre going about your work in all of these different avenues and theres different forms of expression, whether or not your job seems creative or not, there are all different ways of expressing yourself.”
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发表于 2020-8-13 22:54:10
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