An Eyebrow-raising Pottery Piece That Will Make you Smile

ByRoulan

I named this piece Ah-Bug because it reminds me of my uncles squatting by the rice paddies in their colourful bandanas, having a smoke. Ah-Bug means uncles in my Hakka language. Just to be clear all my uncles wore paints 🙂

Ah-Bug is inspired by a South American ancient human effigy pottery vessel. In many regions of South America, ancient human effigy pottery vessels were made showing the genitals to signify the gender of the human effigy.

The vessel would have been used for carrying water and food.

You can view a similar original piece here.

Ah-Bug is made of water-based white raku clay with coarse grog. The coloured slips are made of black clay and terracotta clay. The specifications are similar to my other piece, I Love My Schnapps .

Building pottery
Build the vessel
Building pottery using coiling method
Add limbs
Building pottery
Full anatomy
painting pottery using black clay and terracotta clay slips
Apply coloured slips
painting pottery using black and terracotta clay slips
Back view
Pottery piece completed and fired
Fired

The process I went through to create Ah-bug

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