Precious and Wasted Hearts

Collection of the clay hearts waiting to be fired.

Using photolythography to transfer text about how to register as a donor on to the clay hearts.

Mixture of porcelin and grit clay to hopefully create cracks.

Using 'slip' or liquid clay to create the rust effect.

The squashed heart.

I've decided to continue with the campaign for organ donation and am responding to the statistic only 28% people are on the organ donation register by making 3 'precious' hearts and 7 'wasted' hearts. Here are a few so far;