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Firing Our Wood Kiln, April 2010

The cycle of making, glazing and firing in the pottery studio. In this group of images, Gary & Daphne make pots, glaze them, load them in the Bourry Box wood fired kiln and fire the kiln.
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Ready now to dry and go into the kiln.
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Ready now to dry and go into the kiln.

  • Gary finishes a group of vases. This vase has indentations on its belly made with his fingers and ribbing marks on the neck created with his fingernail while throwing the pot.
  • Other vases have fluting or carving made with a sharp tool.
  • Bowls turned upside down while the foot dries are in the background.
  • Gary is trimming the foot of a teabowl with a sharp trimming tool.
  • He smooths the foot with a different tool.
  • This is a technique called "chattering", using a flexible metal tool that bounces in rhythm across the surface of the turning pot, making sharp gouges, or "chatter' marks.
  • "Chattered' trimmings are left behind.
  • Gary presses his "seal" into the soft clay.
  • Ready now to dry and go into the kiln.
  • Very nice!
  • Daphne has been forming her "sylph" ikebana vases, teapots and garden spirit shakers by hand, impressing the clay upon weathered wood to obtain this natural texture.
  • The weathered annular rings of the tree trunk create irregular hills and valleys radiating out from the center.
  • Daphne's 20" platters are drying along with the "sylph" forms, awaiting the kiln.
  • Daphne loads an electric kiln for the first firing, the bisque.
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