After working with clay and looking at many examples of stoneware fired pieces, varying in thickness or style of building, I started to realize that altering anything in the claybody will not help me in making the fired piece translucent to any extent. It could only help in making the claybody lighter. Opaqueness is a property of the stoneware clay and I should work with this property instead.
So a stoneware body can:
- Block Light
- Reflect Light (if finished like a mirror; eg: stainless steel, steel etc.)
- Allow light to pass, through cavities
I started working on certain surface textures, patterns to see the possibilities of light emission.
Overall it was difficult to make sleek, close packed hollow patterns.
The hollow patterns had to be such that they only cut away parts of the surface and do not follow through and through (line type patterns).
The patterns should be attached to one another, there can't be a pattern running in another (if the first pattern has to allow light to pass through and needs to be cut out).
The claybody has a tendency to appear crude.
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