Viorica Bocioc

Ideas behind this work...

The main idea behind this work was to catch and, finally,  to „freeze”, into a three-dimensional „image”, the short and passing moment when a series of tiny, solid ring tori are immersed  into a mass of flowing porcelain which gets petrified gradually. It is a 3D pleading for Archimedes principle of immersion and for the natural beauty of the matter’s state and its physical behaviour – liquid and solid --, and their metamorphosis through time.

Although it is an abstract discourse – using the basic flat visual vocabulary: point, line, flat or distorted surface etc. --, a contemplative analogy with an atoll of islands and the petrified waters surrounding it, give a certain poetry to the ceramic form as a whole, as a unique imagined reality. Convey the impression of lightness and transparency of a volume by its solid, ruptured and opaque texture was another fundamental aim of this aesthetic experiment. This was the creative source for the raindrops effect present in most of my works.

The main ceramic, textured volume is ennobled with these made in advance thin and fragile ring tori and the confrontation between the proportions of the two areas gives a dramatic effect. The scale of the work changes into an reduced scale model of an Imago Mundi. All the volumes, welded in the final composition, are obtained separately. The weight of the immersed objects interact with the properties of the liquid mass and become the form principle during the time of this „encounter”. The originality of the resulting objects can be, somehow, justified by these two main visual features: mass immersion and the raindrops effect.