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| 7" high x 6" wide Sediment is on the shoulder area, coordinates specified. Lavender glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 1.75" x 1.75" x 8.5" high Almost entirely sediment from the Seamounts in Lau Basin, north of New Zealand, thanks to Dan Fornari and University of Hawaii's R/V Kila Moana. Only a small amount of white matte glaze, assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 11.25" wide x 3.75" high Interior glaze from 37°37’ north 74°11’ west, where the Gulf Stream turns. That sediment, full of foraminifera shells, makes the branching pattern. Exterior from Monterey Bay. Rim and foot of glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 10.25" wide x 3" high Click for larger images and read provenance of the interior Atlantic and exterior Pacific marine sediment glazes. Tim and floor of glaze assembled from refined materials. Center of sea glass. | ||
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| 10" wide x 3.5" high Saturated iron glaze is unaltered Washington Margin sediment from R/V New Horizon May-June 2001 cruise, thanks to Tim Eglinton of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Glass puddles melted, with blue being from a current wine bottle, unlike other samples of sea glass. Seaweed markings make orangey wisps in the center. Area of: 46 to 47 degrees north, 124 to 127 degrees west, off Columbia River | | | This jar has sediment on the shoulder from where "the Gulf Stream Turns" as paleo-climate scientist Lloyd Kegwin told me around 2005. With melting ice and fresh water mixing with sea water and the dynamics of ocean/air circulation -- I can't write "where Gulf Stream turns" without wondering how this big circulation pattern will be changing. The coordinates are written. Most of this piece's matte glaze was assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 6" wide x 2.75" high On porcelain clay, says, "Sea glass framed by seabed sediment from 46° north 125° west (melted)Washington Margin." Rim of rutile slip and foot of matte green glaze were assembled from refined materials. | | | 11.5" x 3.75" Colorful and well-articulated branching pattern. Sediment glazes: interior from North Atlantic makes dendritic rivulets in the kiln after being evenly applied, exterior from Gulf of the Farallones, a marine sanctuary near San Francisco. Two exterior bands state information about these materials. Click for largest images and read for yourself. Lavender glaze and sea glass in the gull -- assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 4" x 2.5" Porcelain Nothing but this sediment applied thickly and melted. To me this is georgeous with mystery, crustals, and clues to chemistry. | | | 11.75" x 3.25" Interior Atlantic sediment and exterior Pacific sediment; from where Gulf Stream Turns and from Hydrates Ridge (off Oregon). Lots to read about provenance on the back. Center of sea glass and rim of glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 5" high x 3" wide Brown glaze on top third is from the seafloor of the marine sanctuary of Monterey Bay. Interior celadon and exterior matte glazes assembled from refined materials. | | | 10.5" x 3.5" Atlantic Interior Pacific exterior -- center of sea glass melted over a symbol for latitude and longitude, also how I experience level and plumb. Glaze assembled from refined materials on rim and foot. | ||
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| 10.5" wide x 6.5" high Top says, "Atlantic Ocean interior Pacific Ocean exterior. Glaze assembled from refined materials are matte green and white. Sea glass in know of lid and center of bowl. | | | 10.25" wide x 3.5" high Sediment glaze making the branching pattern inside of this bowl frames the United States Fisheries symbol -- NOAA's bird, which is filled with melted seaglass. The back cites this as being from the South Atlantic Large Marine Ecosystem (LME), with coordinates and description, "Where the Gulf Stream Turns" written into a thin sample of the same marine sediment glaze (applied thinly onto leatherhard clay). Green matte and rim glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 5.75" x 2.75" high Two unique sediment glazes from the Gulf of Maine; the light-colored one is from a submerged carbonate beach at Muscongus Bay and the dark one inside and out is from Penobscot Bay. Thanks to R/V Argo Maine and the U.S. Geological Survey. Center of sea glass. Rim and foot of copper-based glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 5.5" x 2" On porcelain clay with a sea glass center are melted marine sediments from Muscongus Bay (a submerged carbonate beach) on the interior and Penobscot Bay on the exterior. Click to see back images larger. The rim is glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 14" long x 7" wide People who miss seeing my signature on the back will find it on the front here -- tucked in with other legible calligraphy among sediment glaze from where the Gulf Stream turns. (as I was told in 2005, but will it continue to turn there?) | | | 5" wide x 2.5" high Interior from center to midway was brushed with material from CDH10--the first retrieved sediment from the "Long Core Sea Trial" of 2007. An earlier Bermuda Rise sample that's very golden flowed over it and both, mixed together, pooled in the center. Exterior says, "CDH10, 33° 41.199' North, 57° 36.903' West. 4,583 meters deep." Glazes assembled from refined materials on foot and back. | ||
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| 11.75" wide x 3" high Says, "Exterior Santa Barbara Basin Interior Norfolk Slope East of Virginia Capes Where Gulf Stream Turns (2005) 37° 37' North, 74° 11' West. Rim of lavender glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | Monterey Bay and seaglass in a thumbwell are the matrine materials melted here. | ||
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| 12" wide x 3.75" high Very self-organized and very expressive in a chaordic kindof way. Atlantic inside, Pacific outside. Lots of writing on the exterior tells details of sediments' coordinates and the Pacific sample is from off Oregon at Hydrate Ridge. | | | 6.25" wide x 23.5" high Interior from center to midway was brushed with material from CDH10--the first retrieved sediment from the "Long Core Sea Trial" of 2007. An earlier Bermuda Rise sample that's very golden flowed over it and both, mixed together, pooled in the center. Interior says, "CDH10, High Noon, 5 September 2007, 33° 41.199' North, 57° 36.903”' West. 4,583 meters deep." Copper green glaze, assembled from refined materials, by itself on the back is green but on the rim, where it overlaps with white glaze, it made marroonish pinkish-red. This is a cue to how oxidizing and reducing atmospheres in the kiln work to create variety. | ||
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| 9" high x 7" wide Galapagos sediment on the neck. Hydrothermal vent granules from 9 degrees North from East Pacific Rise in the Pacific Ocean. North Galapgos Seamounts coordinates are written. Green matte and shiny glazes assembled from refined materials. | | | 11" wide x 3.75" high "South Atlantic Large Marine Ecosystem of NOAA fisheries - The Bump - 31º55' north, 74º11' west, 220 meters." This is from R/V Oceanus cruise OC376-2 B0x Core 11. Googling the Charleston Bump brings lots of informtion. Other glaze is celadon. Central bird filled with clear sea glass. Grace did well creating a harmonius world in this piece. | ||
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| 5" x 3.5" Exterior glaze is the most sandy sediment I have from a deep sea location of a thirty square mile area south of Martha's Vineyard. I apply it to leather-hard clay and stroke it off quickly at a time when I also write words into the clay. Brown shiny tenmoku glaze assembled from refined materials. Sea glass thumbwell. | | | 5.25" x 2.25" On porcelain clay, words say: Pacific Ocean, Gulf of California, West Carmen Basin. This sediment is very fine-grained and transparent--maybe micro-algae burns out. Rim and exterior glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 16" wide Large size gives sediments lots of space to branch. The sediment was evenly applied and melted into the pattern -- with good fortunate of perfect temperature (not too hot and not too cold.) Back band says, “No man [or woman] has earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his [her] course by a star which she has never seen — to dig by the divining rod for springs which she may never reach.” 5º 32’ north 44º 2.3’ west mixed layers of space & time from imploded cores — “All that offers any man from which to start her thinking is a fact. And if this universe is one universe …. It does not matter what that fact is. For every fact leads to every other by the path of air.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes | | | 4.5" wide x 2.75" high Rimicarus Exoculata is the small shrimp-like carcass I fired inside the bowl. Surrounding it is Earth crust slurry from the Kane Fracture Zone applied heavily and on the exterior it is applied thinly. Coordinates written on the back. | ||
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| Some pieces say things that will never be repeated and they have a commanding presence that gets some point across. Some are rarely seen because they're tucked away, in case of a well-curated show. Here are some: Lava Bowl Doorways Thru Dendrites Blue Yolk Opening Windows in Time Chimera Mandala Bowl The Friend's Bowl | | | 5.5" x 2.5" On porcelain, riftia (casing from tubeworm) center surrounded by hydrothemal vent granules surrounded by Monterey Bay sediment. | ||
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