Ceramic Project

I first played around with different ways I could make leaves by stamping clay into a mold and also then pouring slip into a mold. After I found a way that I liked I made a few leaves that would go on the bottom of my tree. Then I rolled and wrapped clay around a paper towel roll and started to roll out my tree branches. I scored and pasted them on to the tree, fired it, glazed it and fired again. I am really proud of this piece because it represents how my anxiety has fallen away which the leaves represent. It also was difficult because I had to figure out the logistics of how the branches would stay up, and how to make the tree stand as a whole. When someone would look at this they would see the symbolism of how the leaves have fallen off of the tree symbolizing that something like the leaves had been blown off which symbolizes my anxiety.