Tectonic Plates Vessel
I am currently working on weatherworn vessels that have an aged look to them. This bowl is inspired by the earth’s crust shifting and cracking and observing the layers of aggregates that naturally occur in the earth. This hand built bowl is designed so that a natural fissure occurs during the initial drying process just as the tectonic plates shift over time and then the fissure is backfilled with a contrasting black clay. Multiple clays are embedded and incorporated into this organic design. This bowl has been under intense pressure in the kiln as the volume of thick glazes overlapped and melted and reformed and the different clays each shrank at different rates. Each piece is completely unique and this piece is extremely dramatic and the fissure goes all the way to the base rim of the bowl. The inside of the bowl has thick glazes that represent the liquid mantle that is exposed when the plates move. The slow cooling process stabilizes the vessel so that when it emerges it is strong, newly formed and quite uniquely beautiful. It is raw and unapologetic!
30cm diameter at its widest part x 17cm high.
I am currently working on weatherworn vessels that have an aged look to them. This bowl is inspired by the earth’s crust shifting and cracking and observing the layers of aggregates that naturally occur in the earth. This hand built bowl is designed so that a natural fissure occurs during the initial drying process just as the tectonic plates shift over time and then the fissure is backfilled with a contrasting black clay. Multiple clays are embedded and incorporated into this organic design. This bowl has been under intense pressure in the kiln as the volume of thick glazes overlapped and melted and reformed and the different clays each shrank at different rates. Each piece is completely unique and this piece is extremely dramatic and the fissure goes all the way to the base rim of the bowl. The inside of the bowl has thick glazes that represent the liquid mantle that is exposed when the plates move. The slow cooling process stabilizes the vessel so that when it emerges it is strong, newly formed and quite uniquely beautiful. It is raw and unapologetic!
30cm diameter at its widest part x 17cm high.
I am currently working on weatherworn vessels that have an aged look to them. This bowl is inspired by the earth’s crust shifting and cracking and observing the layers of aggregates that naturally occur in the earth. This hand built bowl is designed so that a natural fissure occurs during the initial drying process just as the tectonic plates shift over time and then the fissure is backfilled with a contrasting black clay. Multiple clays are embedded and incorporated into this organic design. This bowl has been under intense pressure in the kiln as the volume of thick glazes overlapped and melted and reformed and the different clays each shrank at different rates. Each piece is completely unique and this piece is extremely dramatic and the fissure goes all the way to the base rim of the bowl. The inside of the bowl has thick glazes that represent the liquid mantle that is exposed when the plates move. The slow cooling process stabilizes the vessel so that when it emerges it is strong, newly formed and quite uniquely beautiful. It is raw and unapologetic!
30cm diameter at its widest part x 17cm high.
