Blood Bowl
2007
Ceramic

Saggar fired stoneware

Cosmic Collision
2009
Ceramic
$450.00
17" diameter x 3" high

Saggar fired stoneware with gold acrylic detail.


The patterns of this piece are achieved with the inclusion of horse hair and rock salt in the saggar before the piece is placed in the kiln and set on fire.


This piece is done in the Japanese style known as "kintsuji" which is defined per Wikipedia, "As a philosophy it speaks to breakage and repair becoming part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise."


Due to the violent nature of the firing process (the piece is burned in a chamber with pine) breakage is the norm rather than the exception. Kintsuji celebrates rather than hides these flaws.

Planetarium
2002
Ceramic, metal
NFS
25"w x 13.5"h x 23"d

Stoneware fired in oxidation with stainless steel gazing ball.

Persei Cluster
2009
Ceramic, Murano glass, acrylic

Multi fired stoneware with glass, lustre and acrylic additions.

Meteor
2009
Ceramic, acrylic
16" diameter x 3.5" high

Earthenware fired in oxidation

Plieades
2009
Ceramic, Glass
16" w x 3" h

Earthenware fired in oxidation with Murano glass and lustre additions

Horse Nebula
2009
Ceramic
$450.00
17" diameter x 4" h

Saggar fired stoneware with silver acrylic detail.


The patterns of this piece are achieved with the inclusion of horse hair and rock salt in the saggar before the piece is placed in the kiln and set on fire.


This piece is done in the Japanese style known as "kintsuji" which is defined per Wikipedia, "As a philosophy it speaks to breakage and repair becoming part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise."


Due to the violent nature of the firing process (the piece is burned in a chamber with pine) cracks and breakage is the norm rather than the exception. Kintsuji celebrates rather than hides these flaws.

Horse Nebula 2
2009
Ceramic
$600.00
19" diameter x 4" h

Saggar fired stoneware


The name of this piece is a play on words. Not only does the decorative patterns mimic nebula and celestial bodies, the patterns of this piece are achieved with the inclusion of horse hair and rock salt in the saggar before the piece is placed in the kiln and set on fire.

Black Nebula Bowl
2009
Ceramic
$200.00

Saggar fired stoneware

Orange Nebula bowl
2007
Ceramic
6"w x 5"h

Saggar fired stoneware.