By Supporting Art Futures, Art Lovers are Making Art Happen
IHYW work in progress
(work in progress)
Cast, tumbled, ready for polishing and then out to the lovers! So many Tiny Shiny Hats!Funny how, it was Katie’s porcelain work that first drew me to her, and it has been the porcelain component that has been the most challenging to resolve. Because here is Katie’s final concept and it feels like it was always meant to be…and how could it be anything else? xo Image copyright of the artist and I Heart Your Work.Something like this. No longer wall mounted, the hats, when not deployed elsewhere, will rest on a signature Katie sculpture made expressly for them and glazed in her hallmark hues. Shelves and tabletops long for this kind of love. Image copyright of the artist and I Heart Your Work.Or this…Image copyright of the artist and I Heart Your Work.Really, not kidding, Katie has worked through a number of different options here….Image copyright of the artist and I Heart Your Work.We were so in love with the prototype tiny shiny hats, but not so in love with the “hat rack”. Our hats are so delightfully weighty (they are really not so tiny) we think they are actually deserving of a custom shelf. So here are a couple tests (and some other unrelated Katie blobs) waiting to be fired. Work in progress. Image copyright of the artist and I Heart Your Work.
We have our prototype silver cast hats and they are even better than we thought they would be! There is a solid weight to them that makes them just lovely to handle. Katie is also playing around with the “hat rack” piece of the concept, this doesn’t have quite the effect we’re after…but it’s so fun figuring this out… and the hats..!!! Oh, LOVE them!! Work in progress. Image copyright of the artist and I Heart Your Work.
Katie has selected the hats she will cast in silver for her project, and sketched up the porcelain “hat rack” too!….we already have a sample of the cream-coloured guy in the middle cast in silver at the bottom…beguiling, yes?! Image copyright I Heart Your Work and the artist.
More playing with multiple hats… Desktop collage (Lopapeysa with no headhole, or armholes…,Big Guy, Li’l Guy, and detail from 1973 poster for Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain laser disk release), 2015. Image copyright of the artist.Katie has been fascinated with tiny hats for a while now… Big Guy, Li’l Guy, image showing custom made Biltmore hat, found tiny plastic hat, 2013. Image copyright of the artist.
