the last firing for FEAST

today the last firing for FEAST  was sort of unremarkable – after all, it was just more of the same – more or less.

the last four dishes came out as expected, now I know how to manage them. I like this one best, as the tidepath has a different shape.

two more flasks; this one in the terracotta crank and the crawling shino glaze, which is a combination I like very much.

another of the bottles with the porcelain overlay and beaten with the butter pat paddle has come out very well, I think, with the opaque matt pale green that this copper glaze makes with porcelain.

reduction was heavier on this firing than the last three, with a lot of sooting on the kiln where gas escaped and burnt off. I am not sure if it made any difference. I know my glazes and clay bodies work a lot better with reduction all the way from 1030/50C to cone 11.

I have made a mock-up of what FEAST will look like; of course the table is about half as wide, and not even half as long as I intend the table in the gallery to be – and in the workshop I had to find up an old blank and primed canvas as a backdrop.

I was worried that the fact that every dish is different would look a bit untidy, but I think as long as there is a table setting pattern to the placing of everything it will read how I want it to.

more images here

One Comment

  1. I think it does look all really good.

    And none of you pots are ever “more of the same.”

    (((Jane)))

    Besides, most young people’s tables are mixmatched here in the US, as you break stuff and have to mix in a different pattern from Target. So I have green and black stuff, two different black patterns, and two different silver ware patterns. But it does sorta go together…

    xoxoxoxoxo

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.