For this project we had to show motion by cutting glass and forming a shape. Then we had to make paper from scratch and then mold the paper over the cut glass. I hung dominoes I created from a slanted angle on a board to show a shadow on the wall.

This project had to be between 13 and 15 inches and using the coiling technique of hand built ceramics.

For this project, we had to create something of meaning to us. When I was in Fiji on a service trip, I caught an incredibly awful illness and then we were all sitting at the campfire one night and I heard this story:

There was a man walking across an open field, when suddenly a tiger appeared and began to give chase. The man began to run, but the tiger was closing in. As he approached a cliff at the edge of the field, the man grabbed a vine and jumped over the cliff. Holding on as tight as he could, he looked up and saw the angry tiger prowling out of range ten feet above him. He looked down. In the gully below, there were two tigers also angry and prowling. He had to wait it out. He looked up again and saw that two mice, one white, the other black, had come out of the bushes and had begun gnawing on the vine, his lifeline. As they chewed the vine thinner and thinner, he knew that it could break at any time. Then, he saw a single strawberry growing just an arms length away. Holding the vine with one hand, he reached out, picked the strawberry, and put it in his mouth. It was delicious.

This story was the inspiration for my ceramics project.