When I say “toilet”, and claim I was making one, what I mean is: a miniature toilet. (The very same appendix applies to many other things I claim, like for instance, when I say “making a universe” and it refers to me making one, I generally means also: miniature…) Anyways.

At first we need, meaning I need, because I am trying to make one, and I have never made one before, as far as I can recall, so we need a mold. Plaster is perfect for molds.

And it looks like this, this mini toilet mold from plaster:

Josiane Keller “mold for a miniature toilet” (2016)

Yes, indeed, it was cast with help of an egg from a chicken, which happens to be as I found the perfect form and scale for a miniature toilet bowl.

And 24 hours later we are here right now, pre-bisque toilet:

Josiane Keller “mini toilet parts” (2016)

Josiane Keller “mini toilet pre-bisque” (2016)

Somewhere I need to attach handles, but I have currently no idea how to do that. Then again, prior to this one I had no idea how to make a toilet either. I once had a friend, who would always say “I cross that bridge when I come to it.” and I would very much like to quote him here in context with attaching my miniature toilet water bowl handles.

The funny thing is, although most of us see toilets several times a day relatively closely, and actually use them, I bet most people also would not quite know what a toilet looks like, as odd as that seems. If you don’t believe me, take a pen and paper and try drawing one. So the bit where we sit is easy and the water tank, most get that one too, but the really difficult bit is the part where the water and the don’t-make-me-type-it-what-else will be flushed, that is very complicated. I ran back and forth between my studio and the toilet several times, but in the end I cheated by making a very modern (= simplified) design here, but the real old fashioned toilets look different, because they show the works, and the works are, indeed, very complicated. Try it out if you don’t believe me!

Meanwhile also Viola got her missing limbs, but I skip a photo to prove that here and show you after the bisque fire, which is planned for tomorrow.