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About FTB
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Joseph Rinn's
portfolio
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Artistic
Statement
As I form my pieces I try to form them from raw emotion and my
subconscious rather than any logical ideas. Although I have tried, I
have never been able to successfully sketch out a plan for one of my
pieces, the best way to describe my work is a random stream of
consciousness that I try to let flow freely without the judgment of
my conscious self. When people ask me when I start a project “What
is it?” I always give the same answer, “I don’t know.” I try not to
let an idea get in the way of my creative flow, instead I try to
dive into the depth of my subconscious and create something that
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contact
Joseph at
lateralus22@hotmail.com
208-981-7171
* New works in process 1-15-10
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Content, 9 ¾
in. in height, stained stoneware, cone 5, 2008
$1000.00
SOLD
After my sophomore
year at my former high school, I became discontent and very
disturbed with the fact that I didn’t know myself. All that I had
worked for seemed to be slipping from my grasp. I left the school,
quit my passion of basketball, and tried to excel in my new passion
of sculptures. About 3 months after attending my new school, my old
ceramic teacher invited me to come back for a pit fire. While I was
there, I started this piece. This is by far is my favorite piece. I
went in with no expectations and just let the emotion I was feeling
take over. The piece represents the feeling of finally being able to
rest and be content with my new life. I was really able to let go of
a lot of emotion tied to my old self. This was one of my favorite
pieces to work on because all aspects of creation seemed to fall
into place with minimal effort. It was my first attempt at adding
shoulders to a face and my most successful. Every aspect of this
piece seemed to fall into place more like it created itself.
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Metamorphiclism, 13 in.
in width, stained stoneware, cone 5, 2008
This piece is one where almost
no logical thoughts went into it. I was able to let go of my
illusion of my self and create a physical representation of what
emotion and thoughts were floating around in my subconscious.
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Cheloniioidea,
10 in. in height, stoneware, cone 5, 2008
I felt as if I was stuck in a
loop. All my pieces reminded me of the same concept, and my teacher
introduced me to the works of Beth Sticher. After that, I really
wanted to try my hand at animals. This was my first attempt at a
series that is now underway. I created this piece out of my head and
did not want to use a picture. I wanted to create a turtle that
would be swimming around in my head rather then the sea.
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Quantum, 12 in. in
height, stoneware, cone 5, fimo clay, 2008
SOLD
This piece is by far my most
frustrating piece. It began as a nothing piece (a name my friends
and I call a piece with no ideas and/or connecting aspects), and I
loved it. Soon I started to see the sun, then I saw the moon, so I
made them more pronounced. Now at this point in the project, I still
liked it and wanted to see it reach its potential. I added white
under glaze to the moon side and harvest yellow and orange to the
sun part. When it came out of the kiln the sun side was cool but the
moon side was tiny patches of grey blotches and the color of the
clay bled through tremendously. I hated it and wanted a white that
would be crisp so I made an engobe and threw it on. Now the face was
white on one side and was pretty good looking, but I couldn’t stop.
I wanted to add more. So I started messing with fimo clay and after
putting on and taking off fimo clay for a couple weeks it finally
became the piece that it is now. If I would do this piece over I
would have stopped while I was ahead
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Tribal Warrior, 6 ¼ in.
in height, stoneware, raffia, 2007
I started this piece with
nothing in mind, and as it formed, it seemed to be tribal and
aggressive, so I added tribal scars and a tattoo. This piece was one
of my earliest works and during this time I had nothing left to put
my passion into. This piece represents my feelings of aggression and
my need for passion.
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Scitsotonic, 9 in in
height, glazed stoneware, cone 5, 2008
This piece represents the
argumentative side of my own brain, at this time in life I felt like
I could never even agree with my self. Instead of being a unified
voice I was many.
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Liquid Smoke, 7 in. in
width, stoneware, cone 5 2008
No idea how this piece came into
existence, it was without effort or thought. Definitely one of my
favorites.
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Mindgasm, 10 in. in
width, stained stoneware, cone 5, 2008
Private Collection
Going into this piece, my mind
was cluttered with too many thoughts to control, and when I created
it, it reflected just that. The faces coming out the top of the head
all meld together to create one face like the way my thoughts were
all chaotic, but seemingly interconnected.
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See No Evil, 9 in. in
height, stoneware, cone 5, bricks, gold leaf, 2008
Private Collection
This piece was made from a
painting that has had a great influence on my artistic style. It was
done by my dad’s friend from college who was an amazing artist, but
was very depressed. He made a “see no evil, hear no evil, and speak
no evil” series with tremendous emotion before he killed himself. He
gave my dad his artwork before he died it and they hang in our
hallway to this day. |
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Thizz, 9 in. in
height, stoneware, cone 5, 2008
This was my first piece after my
break for the summer. During that time I saw a lot of my friends get
messed up on the drug ecstasy. Originally this piece had a distorted
head but a crisp anatomically correct body I was striving to show
what the drug does to the head of what once was normal. The desired
effect was not done well enough and I ended up getting rid of the
body for a more unified piece. |
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Melt, 7 in. in width,
stoneware, cone 5 2008
Private Collection
During the time I was making
this piece I had strong feelings of regret and discontent. I
realized that high school was ending and with it so were all my
ambitions and dreams of things I wish I would have accomplished. It
felt like my dreams were melting away. |
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Spiral, 17 ¾ in. in
height, stoneware. Cone 5, 2008
After learning about the
Fibonacci sequence and looking into spirals, I felt I needed to do a
tribute to this recurring pattern that exists in this universe. I
find this sequence very interesting and feel as if there is some
type of important message that needs to be learned from it. |
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Poseidon, 11 in. in
height, stoneware, cone 5, 2008
Private Collection
This piece struck me by
surprise. I have never really found my self particularly attracted
to the ocean or its wonders, but after this piece all of my pieces
began to have an ocean vibe to them. My turtle became a sea turtle
and my smoke became a wave like entity. I'm not sure were or why
this is happening, but I think I need to visit a ocean as soon as I
can.
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| Peace, 6 ¾ in. in height,
stoneware, cone 5, 2008
A friend of mine told me they
would pay me if I made him a peace sign, so I did.
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Untitled, 6 ½ in. in
height, stoneware, cone 5, 2008
I felt at this point in my art
all my pieces seemed really flat and stale and I wanted to see if
there was some way of adding some kind of motion I tried to make it
look as if his face was blurring away as if he was moving too fast
to see.
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Achievments
I was in G.A.T.E (gifted and talented education) all
through elementary school.
Have played on numerous basketball teams including
all star teams, and played on varsity sense sophomore year. My
sophomore year we got second place in the state tournament. Also
was volunteer basketball coach for Borah basketball camp.
I was president of the art club and the philosophy
club at Borah
I was artist of the month numerous times at capital
high school
I have one first place in the capital art show and
the human rights art show.
Was part of big brothers program.
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