The inspiration for Sonic Loop came from a song, an idea that shape could be given to a moment that was at first unseen. An image of a sound wave viewed on an oscilloscope gave the hint of how to materialise the song, and that it could become visible as a cradle.
Wanting to express the gesture of that moment , I felt the best way was to trace the flowing line in three dimensional form, with minimal intervention. The ideas were first sketched on paper as looping lines, then plotted on a computer to create a three dimensional model, capturing and manipulating the detail. A section of the digital form was sent to a bureau that prints the physical shape in plastic, a rapid prototype, and porcelain objects were then created using plaster moulds taken from the plastic model.
Special ceramic frames are created to support each bowl in the kiln so that they hold their shape during the firing. This allows the distortion to be controlled in a way that retains a fluid spontaneity in each bowl. Consequently the shape of each piece is slightly different from another, even though they are cast from the same mould.
Each piece is then glazed and fired up to 3 times. Some bowls are finished with linear and abstracted patterns mapped to the form's surface geometry and applied to the shapes using screen printed ceramic decals.
