This is my coil piece, it was inspired by my spirit animal, the snail. I first started out by cutting out a flat oval and then taking coils and sticking them around the oval first and then started to stack the coils up on each other. I think took a large coil and twisted it into the shell of the snail and the pinched the other side of the coil to create little tentacles. And then just to add some extra flare, I took little balls of clay and stuck them together to make flowers around the snail.
Unity could be a good principle for this piece, everything flows together nicely and doesn't look out of place. There is emphasis on the snail because it is the biggest part of the piece and it is also in the middle. Balance is another principle because it is very even, if you were to cut the piece in half, one side would not outweigh the other side.
The only meaning behind this piece would be that the snail is my spirit animal. I just thought it would look really cool if I could create a simple coil into an animal and I think it worked pretty well. The flowers were placed to make the piece more detailed and also to help secure the snail down to the base of the piece.
I think this piece turned out pretty well construction wise. Something I would change would be the glazing. I wish I did a more detailed glazing instead of just a plan and simple glazing. I also would of tried to make the coils a little more clean cut, they are just a little too crooked for my liking but I think for trying out coils for the first time, it turned out quite nicely.
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