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so my name is Christopher Eid flock I’m

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a ceramist out of Hamilton Ontario and

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standing with my peace centering

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arrangement which is an interplay of

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thrown objects with virtual reality that

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has been funded by the Canada Council

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for the last two years based on research

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that I’ve been conducting what inspired

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me to start doing my work I would say

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probably the first thing that I looked

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at in doing ceramics was how to harness

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that fascination for the wheel it’s easy

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to see a form immediately come into

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being just by using your fingers and

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compressing the clay but then to

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compress yourself and using a tool or an

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instrument such as the wheel this is a

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technology that has existed for twenty

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thousand years and immediately I found a

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fascination for where people have taken

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it from not just simply looking at

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utilitarian forms but how the industry

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of ceramics or clay has perpetuated a

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new look at how to use technology in

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order to increase the size even the

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volume of the work being created with

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those thoughts I’ve been fascinated into

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creating bold forms and vaz forms on the

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wheel I’m watching magically how those

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objects come to come to life with a

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single piece of clay with this research

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I’ve been wanting to find a way to

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bridge the divide between current high

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technologies and an ancient technology

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such as using the wheel so the Canada

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Council has been gracious enough to Ward

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me two years of time to look at virtual

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reality and rapid prototyping and how to

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incorporate that with with an older

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style of technology and finding that

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catalyst between the two of bridging

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culture and history together within

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craft and within the dynamic of

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interaction with any given medium I

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started looking into flower arranging as

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a as a catalyst and a common denominator

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to easily find and

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connection between things that we put

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into pots as well as how pots are

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created and for what reason I think at

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the end of the day in making this

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grouping I wanted to find the easiest

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and quickest way to take a very

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simplified approach to throwing pots

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with clay to making things with virtual

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reality and flower arranging is an easy

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thing to imagine when we think of

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pottery we have a Vaz or a bull at home

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the first thing you can imagine in the

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centerpiece of a table is putting

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flowers in and so using that as a

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potential target for getting people

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interested in in in what’s happening

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with clay as well as finding new ways to

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reinterpret how technologies are used

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I found that doing virtual reality

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floral arrangements in large thrown

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objects would would be fun and enticing

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you

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