tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365716309325715655.post7425242505156767708..comments2023-09-17T16:43:29.829+02:00Comments on EUGENE HŐN : CERAMIC ARTIST: Conceptual development of the rats.Eugene Honhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06079540455199389412noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365716309325715655.post-28170830303987127502009-06-13T09:49:32.718+02:002009-06-13T09:49:32.718+02:00Jim thanks for your comments - I was the first to ...Jim thanks for your comments - I was the first to graduate with a Masters in Fine Art in Ceramics at UCT in Cape Town. I was not allowed to make any domestic ware and most certainly no permitted to apply any decoration. Hence all the justification, meaning and explaining the significance of decoration etc. Over compensating, as if my professor is looking over my solder. No my blog will form part of a staff exhibition in October at our Gallery - to accompany a rat installation (process related). A Faculty staff member is doing an interview on my work (process) for the Faculty Research paper - I obviously over compensated on my blog - in anticipation of her interrogation. I have done allot of reading over the past two years, to explore various conceptual directions - to find my niche in the making. I luv conceptualising and drawing and having done textile design at school, I have always wanted to find a fine art approach in dealing with the ceramic surface. It seems to be all coming together for me in the rats. Having fun, glad you are enjoying it too. Fine art is such a self indulgent and self obsessed creative experience. Narrowing down the research field in contemporary Fine Art practice has its limitation in terms of viewer appeal. I am trying to bridge that gap. When one is in the business of making meaning (in the 21st century)and the need to share it - is quite something.Eugene Honhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06079540455199389412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365716309325715655.post-35990455177585642862009-06-12T17:25:09.437+02:002009-06-12T17:25:09.437+02:00eugene... it is way too much to take in and respon...eugene... it is way too much to take in and respond to in a "comment". i love your work and i love your process and the drawings are just plain dreamy. i was gonna stew on yesterday's post before commenting and today there's all this stuff about prison tattoos, rat symbolism, religion and such a smooth continuum of thought and concept straight through to execution (of the pieces) and the manner of their photography. i would enjoy having a beer and chatting with you, of that i'm sure. i'm also wondering if your drawings will accompany the mice and rats in your exhibition. i assume they are but either way i really admire them. kinda wish there was a swastika on one of those mice and i understand that as iconography goes, it is too overloaded with meaning but i always loved it as a visual symbol and was forlorn that it had been appropriated for the use everyone knows it for... anyway maybe the geometry of it on the mouse's ass just looked great in the drawing. i feel like i'm rambling. your work is provocative and excellent. beautiful too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com