For the length of the pandemic this year, from March through November, my energy was focused upon dispatching with excess clay by making creative musical instruments and other, mostly pit-fired ceramics. The greatest largess here was the little creatures that I dubbed The Pit Players - little clay anthropomorphous animal forms that I found I could configure into creative dioramas. The backdrop I used was, for the most part, a commercial flotone backdrop that worked well with three-dimensional art.
My last post demonstrated the process by which I created the Pit Players. The rest of my posts this year will be dedicated to the little “plays” and recreations of famous films that I set these players to work on. Like most of my creative work, this started out as a joke. But over time, the sets became more elaborate, the Players more complex, and personalities emerged.
I believe it all began with a recreation of The Great Escape, using simple props.
This was followed by 2001, a Space Odyssey.
Then a simple set up reproduced Psycho.
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