Progenitor No. 16
From the Progenitor Series, this is a hand built animal skull, made of white stoneware, and then finished in a raku white glaze. The skull was gas fired in an outdoor kiln and removed at peak temperature of 1850 degrees F. It was then placed in a reduction chamber filled with locally collected leaves and grasses conjuring smoke and fire. The chamber is then sealed and the environment is starved of oxygen. The black carbon smoke absorbs into the micro-cracks of the glaze leaving a distressed surface as though the object has been excavated.
Wide: 9.5
Long: 10.5
From the Progenitor Series, this is a hand built animal skull, made of white stoneware, and then finished in a raku white glaze. The skull was gas fired in an outdoor kiln and removed at peak temperature of 1850 degrees F. It was then placed in a reduction chamber filled with locally collected leaves and grasses conjuring smoke and fire. The chamber is then sealed and the environment is starved of oxygen. The black carbon smoke absorbs into the micro-cracks of the glaze leaving a distressed surface as though the object has been excavated.
Wide: 9.5
Long: 10.5
From the Progenitor Series, this is a hand built animal skull, made of white stoneware, and then finished in a raku white glaze. The skull was gas fired in an outdoor kiln and removed at peak temperature of 1850 degrees F. It was then placed in a reduction chamber filled with locally collected leaves and grasses conjuring smoke and fire. The chamber is then sealed and the environment is starved of oxygen. The black carbon smoke absorbs into the micro-cracks of the glaze leaving a distressed surface as though the object has been excavated.
Wide: 9.5
Long: 10.5