Description
A hand built ornament in the shape of a wave, fired using the raku process. The vase has this poem along the wave edge, which reads – the roll of a wave is a whale’s back, emigrants riding home.
It is 22cm high and 11cm at widest point.
It is a very tactile pot with the words traced along the wave’s edge and beautiful from every angle, with rich glazes.
How we made this pottery
Raku (meaning ‘easy’ in Japanese!) is a process by which a pot is heated quickly to around 1000 degrees using a gas burner, then it 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 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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