Can You Take Me Back?

Client:

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Year:

2016

A crazy ceramic experiment I did with clay that wound up being rather different than what my teacher at the time expected. The song on the record is The Beatles' "Can You Take Me Back?", which is a tiny snip at the end of "Cry Baby Cry" on The White Album. There's an extended version that remains one of my favorite Beatles songs.

I rolled out the slab, and used an actual unusable Eric Clapton record I thrifted to cut it and mimic the label. I put it on the pottery wheel and, very carefully and slowly, spun the record as I brought a clay tool down on it to create the grooves. And then I threw it on the floor! Kidding. I traced out the cracks on a piece of tracing paper, then cut them out. I strung it all together with fishing wire after it was finished firing. It's a beloved installation piece that I'm terrified to install, out of fear of it falling and *actually* shattering.