Starting up with a ceramic mural

This will be the ´before´ photo.

I´m doing a two month A.I.R. here in SERDE recidencies and workshop center, located in the town of Aizpute, in Latvia.
On Thursday I got permission from the town officials to do a public art project to these concrete walls in the main street, Atmodas iela. At the moment there are some worn-out paintings which are going to be covered with hand-made ceramic tiles, to have ceramic mural panels. The town is supporting the project as they can.

The plan is to use the local clay; red-toned earthenware, press-molds and enkobis for colors.
I´ve been looking into some Latvian folklore symbols and used them as a starting point for abstraction, and from there started to develope the formal and visual themes. It is going to be geometric styled
relief tiles.

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So the meaning of this blog is to show and document the process. It is a tight schedule and ambitious plan, but I believe it´s possible to make it happen! The project is still developing, so more details later on.

I want to thank Arts Promotion Center Finland for support.