Atlantic First sediment I ever fired was from Atlantic, east of Virginia and rich with forams which often make branching patterns when fired. Visit the Places Page for more information. Bermuda Rise is important to climate change researchers, a beautifully-patterned glaze for me, and recently, site of the first longest core ever retrieved. These are marked CHD10 below, and can be available by request. Congratulations! All items are one of a kind and will be removed from the website Click any item below to go to it's page, where more information Currently available :
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| 14" long x 7" wide | | | 11" wide From the Atlantic Ocean, Ceara Rise sediment interior. Other glazes on rim and back were assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 14" long x 7" wide Atlantic inside Pacific edges. | | | 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 | ||
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| 11" x 7" seaglass center Atlantic In Pacific out plus Gulf of Mexico -- Monterey Bay is the Pacific sediment. | | | 3.5" high Each golden speckle is a calcium carbonate cluster. "A speckled galaxy of organisms," said art historian Martin Kemp. Although many sediments have these foraminifera in them, trhis is the only one I have a small amount of that distributes them so they're so clearly seen. | ||
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| 14.5" x 4" A rare outcome for this sediment glaze to make yellow crystals and branch so well. Brown exterior glaze is from Boston Harbor. Click image of back to get larger image and read -- all coordinates are there. Lavender glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 9" high x 8.5" wide Note seaglass in the top. This is the very last dregs of the first sediment I ever tried -- applied thickly on the shoulder. Other glaze is an iron-rich matte glaze, assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 9.5" x 4" Ceara Rise interior, Monterey Bay exterior. Brancing pattern happened by the melting of evenly applied sediment. | | | 8" x 6.5" From where the Gulf Stream turns, coordinates written on shoulder band. Seaglass on lid. Lavender glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 10" x 4.5" Melted marine sedimnt slid over human-made glaze and dragged colorants into a feathery pattern -- I try for this effect often and rarely get it. Lavender center and back is glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | | ||
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| 14" long x 7" wide Gulf of Mexico and Santa Barbara Basin plus some Atlantic Ocean sediments (coordinates written on back). | | | 3.5: high x 3" wide Mud Patch from south of Martha's Vineyard is a grainy sediment on the exterior. Interior is celadon assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 5" x 3.5" Brown exterior glaze from Penobscot Bay has a grittiness to it that's unlike the smooth shiny brown interior. Seaglass in the thumbwell. | | | 21" x 6.5" Kane Fracture Zone is an area on the mid-Atlantic Ridge at 2. 23.5degrees North and 45 degrees West. Cruise was Nov. 14 to Dec. 17th, 2004. 2000 to 3600 meters depth, age between 1.5 and 2.5 million years. Glop from rock saws is high in manganese. It has lots of peridotite, serpentine, basalt, and olivine gabbro. It is mostly volcanic in nature. There is some carbonate in the form of forams and mudstone in the material too. C. Eben Franks said, “It has spent significant time in Hell, meaning that it is from rocks that were buried deeply within the ocean crust, under immense pressure and high temperature – the very crucible of ocean crust formation. Some of it is derived from rocks from the mantle of of the Earth, below the ocean crust . . . from the top of the magma chamber. The mantle is exposed at this location, which is called the Kane Megamullion. | ||
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| 6.5 x 4.75 Sediment from box cores taken fron deck of R/V Oceanus meltes and flows and is infused with cobalt from a brushed line on the lip. Coordinates written on beveled foot area -- click to see detail enlarged. | | | 9.25" x 5" Emerald Basin sediment, from off Nova Scotia, glazes top third. White matte interior appears yellowish where it overlaps the sediment. A lavender glaze is used on the exterior, overlapping both sea sediment and white matte. Shape was thrown symmetrically, then stretched into a humanish figure . . . named butt pitchers by friends, but they began when I was pregnant, when I stretched the bellies. | ||
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| 9.75"wide x 4.25"high Finally (!) the potential pattern is captured here -- branching pattern resulted from evenly applied sediment melting. Click on other images to read the coordinates that make this bowl mappable. Center resulted from placing seaglass there before firing. Exterior lavender glaze was assembled from refined materials. | | | 13.5" high x 8.5" wide On tenth year since I received sediment, this jar uses the original one I received . . . information recorded at base. This material has a many forams of a large size. Other glaze used inside and out, is a lavender I assembled from refined materials . . . seamud is on the shoulder. | ||
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| 10.5" high x 5.5" wide. Golden speckles in Ceara Rise sediment are likely to be foraminifera - I call this glaze "the dark cemetary." Martin Kemp called it "a speckled galaxy of organisms." Other glaze is a copper red. | | | 12" high Shoulder area is the first sedimenbt I ever got, from Atlantic Ocean, east of Virginia, from more then two miles of water depth. Top is tied on with linen cord. Coordinates are writtten on the bottom. Other glazed used is lavender, assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 12.5" x 3.5" Interior patterned sediment glaze from Emerald basin -- back says coordinates and, "Where birds live on wind." This is from south of Nova Scotia. Back is Farallones sediment glaze -- a marine sanctuary. Tenmoku glaze in center was assembled from refined materials, and filled with coke bottle colored sea glass. | | | 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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| 10.25" wide x 3" 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 Box Core 11. Googling the Charleston Bump brings lots of information. Lots of golden crystals appeared in the melted sediment rivulets. Other glazes are celadon and white matte. Central bird filled with clear sea glass. | | | 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 Blue Yolk Opening Windows in Time Chimera Mandala Bowl The Friend's Bowl Doorways Thru Dendrites | ||
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| | 9.5" high x 9" wide Shoulder is the lighter sediment and the lowest exterior brown glaze if the Long Core sediment called CDH-10 from September 2007. | ||||
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| 12" wide x 9" high Interior is Bermuda Rise sediment from 1998. Exterior is from the same site and is the first sediment from Long Core sea trial in Sept. 2007 -- all this is written on the lid. | | | 6" wide x 2.25" high Back says, "From where Gulf Stream Turns, 37º 37'north, 74º 11'west, and Pacific Ocean." Pacific is broen exterior band near foot. Lavender glaze on back assembled from refined materials. Exceptional branching and color developed on this, and center of sea glass foamed up during firing and when it relaxed down in cooling, took sediment with it, which explains how clear sea glass could display this array of color. | ||
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| 12" x 4.25" If you can stand some assymetry from a drip, you can spend less money on this artifact from an area comprised of deep fluffy mud layered in space and time. Coordinates are also written on the back, so click for biggest image and read. Other glazes are copper green, white and matte green, assembled from refined materials. | | | 11" x 4.25" Bermuda Rise sediment makes the patterned glaze inside this bowl. Back says coordinates and depth of sample, and more. Comes with information about this important climate change research area, written by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Glazes assembled from refined materials are center turquiose, and white and green mattes. | ||
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| 15.5" wide x 3.5" high Says, "Center of seaglass and lava pillar crumbs framed by drillings into Earth's crust (plates pulling apart at mid-Atlantic Ridge) framed by Costa Rican Accretionary Prism (plates colliding) framed by Atlantic seafloor! Band of Orca Basin from Gulf of mexico. Foram speckles on back. | |||||
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