I have a pot, Playa Negra in Salt, in the All Arizona Clay exhibition on at the Chandler Art Center in Chandler, Arizona, through April 16. I won an award! A Merit Award for this pot. Congratulations, me!
I do love this particular pot. It is wheel-thrown and altered, experimental cone 6 porcelain with a banded inclusion of black sand from the beach known as the Playa Negra, behind the beach bar in Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which you can see behind me and my beer back in 2003:
This was one of my first big collecting trips, though accidentally, as I was traveling around and had nothing better to do. My other half was completing a series of landscape paintings, en plein air, so we lived in a tent on a remote beach for a couple of months:
I do love this particular pot. It is wheel-thrown and altered, experimental cone 6 porcelain with a banded inclusion of black sand from the beach known as the Playa Negra, behind the beach bar in Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which you can see behind me and my beer back in 2003:
This was one of my first big collecting trips, though accidentally, as I was traveling around and had nothing better to do. My other half was completing a series of landscape paintings, en plein air, so we lived in a tent on a remote beach for a couple of months:
While Clive painted:
But I digress...
This pot was originally fired to cone 6 oxidation, and it looked like this:
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| Playa Negra, 2009 |
It was even exhibited in the Northern Arizona University Ceramics Biennial in 2009 as cone 6 oxidation. Then I guess I just wanted to see what would happen, so I put it into a cone 4 salt firing in 2010, and this was the result:
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| Playa Negra in Salt, 2010 |
