Description
A generously sized platter which is raku fired with earthy, metallic colours. It was created with slabs of altered clay, using textures, slips and silicate to create a patchwork suggestive of our tectonic landscape. It has a line of poetry embedded into it, which reads:
It always takes the darkness for us to see the light.
The dish is 4.5cm deep and 37cm in circumference.
Raku (which we are told by our Japanese friend means ‘easy’!) is a process by which a pot is heated quickly to around 1000 degrees using a gas burner and then is placed in a reduction bin, a sealed metal bin containing combustible material. By controlling the amount of oxygen reaching the glazes, the potter can produce a range of different colours, although much of this is also down to chance!
‘Seatree elemental’ refers to a range of ceramics using rough clays and alternative firing techniques, such as pit firing or raku firing. All pieces are hand built and unique. Although they utilise our own original poetry – just like other seatree work – you may have to work harder to read it, as we are happy to let the words be absorbed into the piece itself. The poems chosen for seatree elemental are often more challenging in nature, as this work has emerged as a way for us to explore our relationship to all that is broken and all that is beautiful in this world shadowed by climate injustice. Just like our other work, you will see a colour spectrum inspired by the wild western fringe of Scotland.
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