The main theme behind my work was not to anthropomorphise the ceramics into a human, but more allow people to realise the person behind the craft. We have Warhol exhibition’s, Haring Exhibitions, and i believe that this is because there work is classed as revolutionary in a form to represent the modern day emotion, whereas a ceramics is almost the Grandpa of the art world and i believe this is where its worth has been lost.
The fact that most inventions are named after their inventors seems to be disconnected. We say Biro as a pen forgetting it was a persons name, along with several others.
Biro
There is the comedic value to believing that some one has named an invention after themselves. When you place a name on somebody you can’t help but to see
Here is what László Bíró would look like as his invention- The Biro pen. Humanity crossed with a pens function makes you questions the pens personality and also the pens human qualities, this allowed me to play with comedic value and give personality to that of what we believe is inanimate.
Braille
Louis Braille ( 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. His system remains virtually unchanged to this day, and is known worldwide simply as braille.
Aside from the spelling mistake as this was a rough sketch, this was showing Louis Braille as Braille. The dysfunction you get when you replace inventors name with their invention is some what comedic and it adds to a great question of object and personality.
The Toilet – The Crapper.
Thomas Crapper (baptised 28 September 1836; died 27 January 1910) was a plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co in London. He was noted for the quality of his products and received several royal warrants.
Manhole covers with Crapper’s company’s name on them in Westminster Abbey are now one of London’s minor tourist attractions. Thomas Crapper & Co owned the world’s first bath, toilet and sink showroom, in King’s Road until 1966. The firm’s lavatorial equipment was manufactured at premises in nearby Marlborough Road (now Draycott Avenue).
For obvious reasons you can see the horrendous relationship with naming an invention with human excrements. The toilet for instance in one we may not name much like a car, as we may feel sorry for it after doing the duty. This is a strong correlation with the idea that we don’t name animals we are going to eat, if there is somewhat sympathy there we take away a name and dehumanise it. Maybe because ceramics have become part of every day life, we eat of them and abuse their worth, we don’t name them? Is there a difference between what men name and women name – for instance some men name their penis? not many women name their vagina. There is a relationship with even gender and objects in which we choose to name and all of this is something that will help me massively in my progress in this project.
Aunt Smoke 
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