Maria White Mebane ceramics

Inspired by organic vessels and surfaces, she celebrate natural textures in her art the play of light on water, the unique patterning found on animal ekins, insect wings, the delicate shapes that define a flower in bloom. She is interested in the tiny details of great beauty we see in the natural world and how light interacts with these forms and surfaces. she work in porcelain; throwing, carving and giving each piece a unique, tactile pattern. In some cases, She will sandblast her work to give it a smooth texture like that or river stones. Her intent is that her work asnks to be touched and ultimetely adds to a space whather it is used domestically or decoratively.

http://www.mariawhitemebane.com

A highly translucent porcelain to create forms that give light

Snce 1983, a love of the translucency of fine high-fired porcelain has led to the development of ways to create thrown forms that give light. A more affordable range of porcelain lighting for industrial manufacture is being created using the experience gained through years of handling and firing the material, as well as continuing to make one-off thrown pieces in the studio. In 1999, time at the Wades Porcelain Ceramic Factory in Stoke-on-Trent was spent creating a lit porcelain cast form that could be industrially manufactured.
Sometimes paper and pencil can help to work out how the practical electrical engineering could be incorporated. Sometimes it is through playing with the clay on the wheel and watching what happens when slight changes are made to the thrown shape. It is impossible to say how it all happens.The quality of light and feeling the translucency that high fired porcelain transmits has inspired finding ways of making the work illuminate without showing the mechanical parts. Although this has been a long, difficult and time consuming process, it is one that had to be done as part of the work.

http://www.caa.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibition-archive/2006/take-me-home/margaret-ororke.html

dreaming goldfish

goldfish is getting me crazy!
now i see goldfish even in my food
can you see it?

like expired goldfish?

glass goldfishlike a expired goldfish

Rob Zinn glowing lamp

These glowing, colorful pieces are made of white plastic panes, whose reverse sides are printed with vivid colors to reflect colored light onto the preceding planes.

interested in jellyfish lamps ?

if you go into the website, please don`t miss to see the "more jellyfish" space, they have lots of examples of the lamps they have sold. Right now some of them are used as decoration in the MGM hotel at Las Vegas

sizes variable: approx. 16" x 16" x 36"
handblown glass, neon

http://www.neon-sculpture.com/marine_art/jellyfish_1.htm

Isamu Noguchi's lamps

Isamu Noguchi's iconic Akari light sculptures are made from handmade washi paper and bamboo ribbing, making them both delicate snd strong. Though they were designed in the 1950s, they fit right into more contemporary environments.

http://www.noguchi.org/

interesting ceramic process

This lamps are made by mixing paper and porcelain clay. In the firing process the paper burns out leaving a delicate, translucent structure; which suffuses any room with a warm glow.

These lamps have been inlaid with a variety of different textures and colours; Extra large sunburst lamp has been inlaid with leaves and stained red and blue. Large explosion lamp has been inlaid with lasagne and stained red and brown. Extra large cowparsley lamp has been inlaid with cowparsley heads. Large stormy lamp has been inlaid with spaghetti and is a mixture of plain and grey clay.

www.lizemtageceramics.com

experiments IV

experiments III

experimentation II

Super big silve cod caught in Zhanjiang

A 54-kg super large silver cod was caught off the coast to Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province on the morning of May 12, 2007. The fish was sold to a restaurent at the price of 230 thousand yuan. The owner of the restaurent said he would keep the fish maw (about 1.35 kg) as a mascot.

http://www.chinanews.cn//news/2007-05-16/35898.html

contribution for Bhavesh

Bhavesh is working in something related to park benches
i remember we were talking yesterday about your project and you rold me that you like something without legs =)
look this fish benches!!!

they are placed by the Li river in china (Guilin), the promenade has recently been rebuilt.

Carved stone benches

fish lamp antiques

both lamps were found in a book full of vintage stuff

VOTE!!! exploration of form

This are some of the forms i have for the lamp
please click to enlarge the photo
which one do you think is the best for this project?????????? WHY????
thanks to those who leave any comments!!! and contributions of any kind!!!!

III LOOOOOVE YOOU SO MUUCHHHHH, soo super muchhhh pu yeaaaaaa

important for my research taken from Bhavesh blog

+ Multi-functioning products are popular. - This makes alot of sense as these products may take up as much as room as one product but can do the tasks of two! therefore saving on space.

Why a goldfish lamp?

In todays Blog, you will see part of the development of a product that is directed to China.

FIRST ACT = GOLDAs we all now, gold has a symbolic value
Gold is common metaphor in many of the worlds lenguages
Photo: Forbidden City's Golden River (Beijing)

Gold SYMBOLS:
"It flitters like gold" - universally Gold symbolize: brilliance, light, illumination, warmth, spiritual realities
Gold symbolizes wealth - “I struck gold”
Gold has been a measure of value and wealth in numerous cultures, in this particular case, the Chinese Wealth.


Second Act: THE FISHOne such symbol of reverence in Feng Shui is the fish
The fish represents wealth and prosperity, especially Carps
The actual word in Chinese for fish also translates to “abundance”
Chinese new year dinner includes fish but its not eaten up completely
As the Chinese phrase "may there be surpluses every year"
Sounds the same as "may there be fish every year."
The Carp is founded usually in paintings, drawings, ceramics, and pieces of Chinese ar; specially one type of Carp, THE GOLDFISH

THIRD ACT = GOLD + FISH
Light = Gold Wealth = Fish
Light + Wealth = Goldfish
Light = Product Symbol = Goldfish
Product + Symbol = A Metaphor

FORTH ACT = THE METAPHOR
Product = Light = Gold, Fish = Wealth = symbol, Product + Symbol = metaphor

The light fills the fish with gold, with wealth, it`s the goldfish decorative lamp

FIFTH ACT = THE DETAIL
Drawings, paintings, patterns and figures in Chinese art show the same type of detail in the fish scales.
Please watch the scales in this imagesThe Existent lamps don't show relation between light and scales.
Scales and light is the Gap

Chinese Robot Fish

KAREN!
Thanks for your contributioon =)

This is the red robot fish designed and made by the Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Scineces. It impressed many children with its life-like movements and vivid appearance. The picture was taken on May 20.

http://www.chinanews.cn//news/2007-05-20/36021.html

nice website

good CHINA GOLDFISH website

you can find there all the type of goldfishes that you can find in China.

Chinese goldfish classification

In Chinese goldfish keeping, goldfish are classified into 4 main types, which are not commonly used in the west.
▪ Dragon eye - Goldfish with extended eyes, e.g. Black Moor, Bubble Eye, and telescope eye
▪ Egg - goldfish without a dorsal fin. e.g. lionhead (note that a bubble eye without a dorsal fin belongs to this group)
▪ Wen - goldfish with dorsal fin and a fancy tail. e.g. veiltail ("wen" is also the name of the characteristic headgrowth on such strains as oranda and lionhead)
▪ Ce (may also be called "grass") - goldfish without anything fancy. This is the type that is usually used in Japanese carnivals, especially for "goldfish scoops".
▪ Jikin and wakin - goldfish with double tails, but with the body shapes of comets.