Each Teapot is fabricated from porcelain, fired to cone six using a variety of glazing techniques and sometimes multiple firings. Each piece is functional but its complexity and form make its use possible but problematic.
This series began as a challenge to hand build with porcelain in unexpected shapes. These pieces do not begin with any preconceived idea of what they will look like upon completion. Each new teapot is influenced by the most recently completed piece and by the first tentative shapes that are used as its starting point. Very often the unexpected shapes and colors create particular moods, making some teapots whimsical and others more formal.
As I obtain more familiarity and confidence in building with porcelain, the teapots grow in size and complexity. The smallest are probably six inches in all dimensions and the largest is a little over twelve inches high. The inspiration for these pieces comes from many sources to include ceramic vessels that I have made. But a viewer could easily find tributes to particular teapot styles and traditions in these pieces. There is a very definite post-modern approach to their fabrication as I take apart the basic elements of a teapot and re-arrange them in new juxtapositions.
Frank Ozereko
