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.