Description
This is a lovely hand built, raku fired pebble pot, with Chris’s original poetry, which reads –
roll me on your riverbed
pebble me in water
dance me in your sediment
then lay me down in strata
The bowl is 10cm high and 13 cm in circumference.
It was fired in a raku kiln (raku means ‘easy’ in Japanese!) but is a process by which a pot is heated quickly to around 1000 degrees using a gas burner and then placed in a reduction bin, which is 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!
It is a very tactile and gentle piece. You will love to hold it.
‘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 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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