Defiantly needs a good clean up!
Navigator 1999 Revisited # 143.
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Navigator 1999 Revisited # 142.
The reverse side of #142. In a reasonable condition, but broken in half otherwise in good condition.
Small red stain on the left side face, otherwise unstained. Most of the outlines are quite deep and there are signs of uneven dryness before firing on the left-hand side.
Navigator 1999 Revisited #137
The above image is the reverso ( the back side.) of Ceramic tablet #137.
Every ceramic tablet that I made for The Navigator was meant to be as individual piece, a standalone art work, solo individual peace that can coexist as part of a group. Another way of see it is thinking about it as a solo vocalist, that can accompaniment, or be part a choir. Preserving the individual of every piece is of utmost critical importance. A practice that I still carry to this day.
Some of these ceramic tablets as each carries it own massage, have a image on the reverso side ( the back side), while others don’t. Being all these years out in the natural elements took their toll. Some are in a very poor state.
Where possible and if there is no image, a number and other notation related to the number are added in acrylic paint. The advantage of this is that, that becomes its cataloging number. If it breaks when too wet, it gives you more visual clue of how to put them back together.
Then the tables are steam clean, and sealed with binder.
Navigator 1999 Revisited.
This was my final project at WSU Kingswood in 1999. I made few hundreds of these paper clay tables, for a four-sided square pyramid 7m high. Not all these ceramic tablets survived, some in reasonable, others in very bad state.
I am trying to salvage what I can.