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CERAMIC SCULPTOR

The ceramic sculpture and metal sculpture of Clayton Bailey:
AN EXHIBITION OF AMAZING CERAMIC WONDERS OF ART, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, and ENTERTAINMENT.


: "MUSEUM MISFORTUNE !
IT LOOKS AND SOUNDS LIKE A VIRTUAL DISASTER !

INSTRUCTIONS: (MAKES SOUNDS LIKE BREAKING GLASS.)

1- DROP PIECES ON THE FLOOR WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING.
2- ACT SURPRISED, AND ENJOY THE EXCITEMENT.
3- UNBREAKABLE - CAN BE DROPPED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

This practical joker's object is Clayton Bailey's way of disrupting the peace at art museums or gallery openings. Irregular pieces of tempered aluminum are painted to look like fragments of decorated porcelain sculpture; (possibly a Jim Melchert or Robert Hudson ceramic sculpture?) When dropped on the floor, they sounds like a large, valuable, ceramic object has broken. Bailey takes this in a box to show his ceramics class at Cal State, Hayward , and just as he is about to show the treasure from his great grandmother's china collection (which she carried here by hand during World War II), it drops from the bottom of the box, and crashes to the floor to the shock and dismay of all the victims in his classroom."

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