This series is defined by the inclusions of black sand collected from behind the beach bar in Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico. This material was originally collected in 2003, while camping out on a beach for a couple of months with Clive (Pates), who was completing a series of paintings of the Sea of Cortez:
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Prange porcelain with black sand collected from the Playa Negra behind the beach bar in Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico; thrown and altered; 6.5” x 6”; interior glazed with Clear Matte; fired to cone 6 oxidation, then cone 6 reduction and, finally, cone 6 soda.
White stoneware with black sand collected from the Playa Negra behind the beach bar in Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico; thrown and altered; 9” x 9”; glazed with Clear Matte and Chartreuse; fired to cone 10 oxidation.
Recycled stoneware with inclusions of black sand from Baja, Mexico; thrown and altered; 6 x 9.5 x 9.5 inches; oxidation fired to cone 6.
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Recycled, white stoneware with black sand collected from the Playa Negra behind the beach bar in Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico; thrown and altered; 9 x 9 x 4 inches; glazed with lithium pink; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
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Work including natural clay bodies from the Piedmont region of Virginia, especially Orange and Rappahannock Counties.
Recycled stoneware with Irish linen fiber and red clay from the South Yard excavation at Montpelier in Orange County, VA; thrown and altered; glazed with Lava and Panama Red; 4 x 10 x 10 inches; oxidation fired to cone 6.
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Recycled stoneware with inclusions of red clay from Avon Hall in Washington, VA; thrown and altered; glazed with Lava and Cushing Blue; 4.5 x 12 x 12 inches; oxidation fired to cone 6.
White stoneware with cottonwood tree fiber from Shenendoah, VA, and red clay from the end of Schoolhouse Road, Washington, VA; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with Lava and Fake Ash; 6 x 12 x 12 inches; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
White stoneware with cottonwood tree fiber from Shenendoah, VA, and red clay from the end of Schoolhouse Road, Washington, VA; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with Lava, Chartreuse and Black Lapis; fired to cone 6 oxidation; 7.5" x 13.5" x 13.5".
Helios porcelain with Irish linen fiber and inclusions of red clay from the end of Schoolhouse Road, Washington, VA; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with Chartreuse, Black Lapis and Cushing Blue; fired to cone 6 oxidation; 5" x 13" x 13".
Helios porcelain with Irish linen fiber and inclusions of red clay from the end of Schoolhouse Road, Washington, VA; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with Chartreuse, Black Lapis and Cushing Blue; fired to cone 6 oxidation; 3.5" x 6.5" x 6.5".
English porcelain with Irish linen fiber and inclusions of clay and other dirt from Mexico, Arizona and Virginia; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with Lava, Chartreuse and Black Lapis; fired to cone 6 oxidation; 4" x 12" x 12".
English porcelain with Irish linen and inclusions of red clay from the South Yard excavation at Montpellier in Orange, VA; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with Chartreuse, Fake Ash and Black Lapis; fired to cone 6 oxidation; 6.5" x 7" x 8".
English porcelain with inclusions of micaceous clay from the Annandale Campus of NOVA; thrown and altered; glazed with Spearmint and Cherry Blossom Shino; oxidation fired to cone 6; 4" x 7" x 7".
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Recycled stoneware with inclusions of micaceous clay from the Annandale Campus of NOVA; thrown and altered; glazed with Lava and Cushing Blue; oxidation fired to cone 6; 8" x 9" x 9".
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English porcelain with Irish linen fiber and inclusions of natural clay from Accotink Creek in Annandale, Virginia; thrown and altered; glazed with Lava and Chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 6; 7" x 11" x 11".
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English porcelain with Irish linen fiber and inclusions of micaceous clay from the Annandale Campus of NOVA; thrown and altered; glazed with Chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 6; 6" x 6" x 6".
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English porcelain with Irish linen fiber and inclusions of natural clay from Accotink Creek in Fairfax County, Virginia; wheel-thrown and altered; 7 x 10 x 10 inches; glazed with Lava and Chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 6.
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English porcelain with Irish linen fiber and inclusions of natural clay from Accotink Creek in Fairfax County, Virginia; wheel-thrown and altered; 7 x 10 x 10 inches; glazed with Lava and Chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 6.
English porcelain with Irish linen fiber and inclusions of natural clay from the Annandale Campus of Northern Virginia Community College; thrown and altered; glazed with Lava and Cushing Bronze; oxidation fired to cone 6; 7" x 11" x 11".
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White stoneware with fireclay from the Mogollon Rim at the top of Oak Creek Canyon above Sedona, Arizona; thrown and altered; 8.5" x 6.5"; glazed with Salmon Sugar and Lavender Black, fired to cone 8 oxidation.
White stoneware with inclusions of dirt from the Mogollon Rim at the top of Oak Creek Canyon above Sedona, Arizona; thrown and altered; 8" x 6"; glazed with Salmon Sugar and Barium Turquoise; fired to cone 12 oxidation.
Haji porcelain with cellulose fiber and inclusions of red rock from Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona, Arizona; thrown and altered; 12" x 4"; glazed with Chartreuse and Marilee's Lava; fired in Fox's kiln to cone 6 oxidation.
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Coleman porcelain with inclusions of dirt and debris swept up from behind the kiln yard of the F building, Verde Valley Campus of Yavapai College, Clarkdale, Arizona; wheel-thrown and altered; 5” x 7”; glazed with Salmon Sugar and Chartreuse; fired to cone 12 oxidation.
The Parking Lot Behind the F Building
This series is made from Coleman Porcelain mixed with some dirt and rocks that I swept up in the parking lot between the kiln yard and Security, and sieved into various mesh sizes. For simplicity, these sizes are fine, medium and coarse.
These are glazed with some of my favorite Mississippi and Bristol D8 glazes, and then fired in an oxidation kiln to the REALLY HOT temperature of about D13. I asked for D8, but sometimes a kiln has its own agenda. This extreme temperature caused the ovoid distortions in the porcelain, as it reached fairly close to its melting point. The glazes have completely saturated the body of the clay and reacted strongly with the minerals in the dirt inclusions.
Wheel-thrown and altered Coleman porcelain with inclusions of dirt and debris swept up from behind the kiln yard of the F building, Verde Valley Campus of Yavapai College, Clarkdale, Arizona; 5.5” x 7”; glazed with Salmon Sugar and the New Black; fired to cone 12 oxidation.
Grolleg porcelain with human hair, clay from the Mogollon Rim up Oak Creek Canyon above Sedona, AZ, and black sand from Oracle, AZ, on red stoneware with dirt from Jerome and Clarkdale, AZ; wheel-thrown and altered; 6” x 6”; glazed with Autio Clear and Panama Red; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Experimental cone 6 porcelain with black sand collected from the Playa Negra behind the beach bar in Santa Rosalia, Baja, California Sur, Mexico, on a base of Russian River Red stoneware with dirt from Jerome and Clarkdale, Arizona, and 35m mullite; 6" x 6"; glazed with Autio Clear and Panama Red; fired to cone 6 reduction.
White stoneware with inclusions of natural brick clay from the Verde River in Clarkdale, Arizona; thrown and altered; 7.5" x 9.5"; glazed with Clear Matte and The New Black, fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Experimental Cone 6 Porcelain with Verde River sand collected from Giulietta's shoes; thrown and altered; 5.5" x 5.5", glazed with Sapphire and Marilee's Lava, fired to cone 6 Oxidation.
Recycled, white stoneware with inclusions of river gravel from the Verde Valley Campus of Yavapai College, Clarkdale, AZ; wheel-thrown and altered; 7” x 5”, glazed with Marilee's Lava and Autio Clear, soda fired to cone 6.
Porcelain paperclay with Verde River clay from Clarkdale, Arizona; thrown and altered; 12 x 5 inches; glazed with Cherry Blossom Shino and Chartreuse; cone 6 ox.
Porcelain paperclay with Verde River clay from Clarkdale, Arizona; thrown and altered; 12 x 5 inches; glazed with Cherry Blossom Shino and Chartreuse; cone 6 ox.
Thrown and altered porcelain with inclusions of natural brick clay from the Verde River in Clarkdale, Arizona; 8" x 7 "; glazed with Marilee's Lava and Autio Clear; fired to cone 6 Oxidation.
White stoneware with Verde River gravel collected from the Verde Valley Campus of Yavapai College; thrown and altered; 6" x 6", glazed with Autio Clear and Blue-green/Copper-red; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
White stoneware with Verde River gravel collected from the Verde Valley Campus of Yavapai College; thrown and altered; 6" x 6", glazed with Autio Clear and Blue-green/Copper-red; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Recycled porcelain with dirt collected between the top of Mingus Mountain and Jerome, Arizona; thrown and altered; 5" x 4"; glazed with Autio Clear and Marilee’s Lava; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Recycled porcelain with dirt collected from the Art Park in Jerome, Arizona; thrown and altered; 5" x 4"; glazed with Autio Clear and Marilee’s Lava; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Recycled porcelain with dirt collected from the Art Park in Jerome, Arizona; thrown and altered; 4" x 4"; glazed with Autio Clear and Teadust Tenmoku; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Recycled stoneware with natural clay collected from the top of Mingus Mountain above Jerome, Arizona; wheel-thrown and altered; 9 x 5 inches; glazed with Marilee’s Lava and Fake Ash; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Scarva Ming porcelain with Irish raw linen fiber and beach glass collected from the Holy Ground in Cobh, Ireland; thrown, altered and destroyed by natural events; oxidation fired to cone 10; 4" x 10" x 11".
Scarva Ming porcelain with Irish raw linen fiber and beach glass collected from the Holy Ground in Cobh, Ireland; thrown, altered and destroyed by natural events; glazed with Chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 10; 3" x 11".
Ming porcelain and beach glass collected from the Holy Ground in Cobh, Ireland; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with Chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 9; 10 x 26 x 26 cm.
Ming porcelain and beach glass collected from the Holy Ground in Cobh, Ireland; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with Chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 9; 10 x 26 x 26 cm.
Ming porcelain and roof debris from the National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 9; 10 x 23 x 23 cm.
Ming porcelain and roof debris from the National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland; wheel-thrown and altered; glazed with chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 9; 10 x 23 x 23 cm.
White stoneware with black sand from the washes at Rancho Linda Vista in Oracle, Arizona, wheel-thrown and altered, 7.5 x 7.5 inches, glazed with Clear Matte, fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Stoneware with black sand from the washes at Rancho Linda Vista in Oracle, Arizona, wheel- thrown and altered, 5 x 5 inches, glazed with Cherry Blossom Shino and Chartreuse, cone 6 ox.
B-Mix stoneware with Oracle Granite gravel collected from the nest of Harvester ants at Rancho Linda Vista in Oracle, Arizona; thrown and altered; 10" x 6", glazed with Marilee's Lava, Schran's Blue Crystal and Cherry Blossom Shino; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Black stoneware with inclusions of Oracle Granite collected from the mounds of Harvester ants at Rancho Linda Vista in Oracle, Arizona; thrown and altered; 7.5 x 6 inches; glazed with Marilee's Lava and Fake Ash; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Black stoneware with inclusions of Oracle Granite collected from the mounds of Harvester ants at Rancho Linda Vista in Oracle, Arizona; thrown and altered; 7.5 x 6 inches; glazed with Marilee's Lava and Fake Ash; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Fox's Red Recycled Clay at Rancho Linda Vista, thrown and altered, glazed with Marilee's Lava, 6.5 inches x 6.5 inches, Cone 6 Reduction, twice.
Bee-mix stoneware; thrown and altered; 6" x 6.5"; glazed with Green Matte and Lavender Black, cone 12 oxidation.
Bee-Mix stoneware, thrown and altered, 7" x 7", glazed with Fake Ash and Blue-green/Copper-red; fired to cone 6 oxidation.
Recycled white stoneware; thrown and altered; 9.5" x 7.5"; dipped in a thin coat of Larry Meagher's Grolleg Flashing Slip; fired to cone 6 soda.
Recycled stoneware, thrown and altered; glazed with chartreuse; oxidation fired to cone 6; 5" x 7" x 7".
Stoneware, wheel- thrown and altered, 7 x 5 inches, glazed with Marilee's Lava and Fake Ash; cone 6 oxidation.
Recycled stoneware; thrown and altered; 4” x 11”; glazed with Marilee's Lava and Spearmint; oxidation fired to cone 6.
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