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Just before heading for the plane, I put this little piece, made in 2009, in my pocket. This simplified baby became the fulcrum for the residency and I will continue to work with it when I return to Vancouver. -
The Big Pink Baby, became The Golden Boy, the terra sigalattas transformed in the wood-fired Salt firing. Surprise!!! -
My last big piece made at the ICS. Terra sigalattas on the surface. I think she is at her best unfired. This time the result was quite dry. I hope to be able to do more surface work on her when i get back to my home studio. -
Shortly before the end of the residency. A vignette by my window, showing the different scales of the cast forms and the handbuilt. -
Another baby and dog combo. Still green. -
the slip cast babies are beginning to pile up.....they seem to work well as multiples. -
Yet another howler...looking a bit like a dinosaur. -
Preparing for the salt kiln, the slip and sig area get chaotic. -
The howers are finished, with a combination of slips an terra Sigalattas, and ready for the Salt Kiln. -
Work continues , and time marches on. we cannot believe how quickly each day, each week, passes. -
The kiln could have gone hotter and the results is that the ash remains unburned inside some of the pots...Mary lost a few. -
Because my figures were standing, and were at the top of the kiln, the ash melted beautifully on the terra siggalattas -
but she also got a few spectacualr results, showing her deft hand with colour and line. -
added lots of wood.....but we found out later, it is a matter of timing with allowing the wood to produce the heat by burning thoroughly, rather than just pileing on. -
The students from Sopron fire through the night till 6am, for us. they were supposed to get the temp up to 1000c by 6am when Jakab arrived to check...they tried... -
Margaret is in with the fish, to her relief! -
First salt at 1200c....about 10k was used over the last 3 hours of the firing. -
and then considers her options....more wood...now or more wood later.... -
The big smoke
