Christmas present?

Saw this version of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein with some clay included so you can sculpt your own monster. I don't know, but there should be a version with clay included of Meyrinks Golem also. He/she/it is at least made of clay while Frankenstein is made of human bodyparts. Hmmm, they didn't want to include bodyparts - a bit to messy I guess, and probably against the law.

Golem and the princess bowl

This is where the beautiful white princess is molested the by the red Golem clay, almost falling over but still on her feet because she has three strong supports holding her up. Still raw and unfired and there will be a glaze on the bowl, hopefully a crystal glaze, but with ceramics you never know how it will come out after firing. It can, or will probably crack and the glaze may be a total failure so the story of this one is still to be continued. 

Just another bowl

Another studio image of a bowl I made. Handbuilt, still unfired, thumbed, about 15 cm high, but this time I've worked on the finish of it in a I way usually don't. Scraping, polishing and removing all the fingerprints I usually leave as a signum of my work. I call it a princess bowl, but in this picture it's not finished yet! Right now it's just another bowl - but I have plans for it! 

To be continued... 

Pot, cup and plate

Some studio images. Maybe unusual for me handbuilding (sculpting) pots and cups again. Both are still raw and unfired, The pot on is ready as it is but kind of frozen in the process of coiling without smoothing out the last attached coil.

Normal person by Arcade Fire

From the new record by Arcade fire the song Normal person. The text appealed tom me since I've been thinking a lot about what's considered normal with a person - in social behaviour, identity, likes and dislikes, style and whatever. There are some beautiful text lines in there such as "Waiting after school for you, they want to know if you, if you're normal too!" and "You dream in english now, in proper english look how!". I like the whole record though and hope they will come to to play in Sweden again soon.

Or on the other hand...

replying the Zizek post before this one

...maybe not that perfect after all. Just because of the fact that the Golem figure is an empty persona it becomes more apparent that the actions and stances the player chooses are in fact the players choices. If you choose to kill the cat in the beginning of the game, instead of of cuddling with her, to get the key to the next level, you choose evil before good. If you want to play the evil identity as en ease for your true self, it's less obvious to yoursellf and others if you choose a game where the charachter is evil from start and where there are no possible choices of being good at all. In a fps-game you kill people and charchters, mostly in the guise of a hero protecting the world, but still - you kill, and you think you're doing it for righteous reasons.

Zizek on videogames

"...but what if we read it in the opposite way, this strong, brutal, rapist, whatever identity is my true self, in the sense that this is the psychic truth of myself. And that in real life, because of social constraints and so on, I'm not able to enect it. So that precisely, because I think it's only a game, it's only a persona, a self image I adopt in virtual space, I can be there much more truthful. I can enact there an identity which is much closer to my true self." 
Slavoj Žižek

"In my game there will be several paths the player can follow to achieve Golems respect and/or esteem. He can choose to go down the evil path, spreading fear, killing and looting which will result in hatred and horror. He can ally with the feudal bad guys, assisting the tyrant and achieve power to control the people, or on the other hand ally with the people against the tyrant, kill the dragon and be the beloved hero. He can also be the artist, the odd fellow, respected for his creativity but never really incorporated fully in the society."
Quoting myself in the About Golem game blog  page

The Golem figure in my game is perfect this purpose. He/she/it is  an actual newborn and emtpy persona, yet grown up and strong, to adopt and shape as you like. Shape mentally, mirroring your deepest self or even shape his appearance - he is after all made of clay.