Description
A hand built round bowl, standing on three short legs, imprinted with this original poetry..
‘what if, when eventually unlocked
we carry on regardless
as if the plastic pot we feed from
will always cost nothing’
This bowl was fired three times – once in an electric kiln, then twice in a raku kiln, to achieve the beautiful copper lustre colours.
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!)
The bowl is 13cm high and has a 14cm circumference.
‘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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