| This section has many different effects of this Earth crust remelted thickly, thinly, on porcelain, and stoneware. |
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| 4" x 3" Porcelain with sea glass center. Says, "Mid-Atlantic Ridge Spreading." Lavender glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 9" x 2" Earth Crust slurry melted from Kane Fracture Zone, with coordinates and age range of material specified on back. Lavender, copper green, and rutile slip gaze were assembled from refined materials. Sea glass filled grooves of the pelican. | ||
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| 5.5" wide x 3" high Symbol, material, words all tell a version of the story. Crater ash from Snaefellsness was pulverized and then melted on this porcelain bowl. Other glaze is a slip of mineral-rich rutile. | | | 6.25" x 2" Porcelain and glass center. Symbolically, red at the center is how I feel Earth to be. Cycles of magma spewing and cooling at the mid-Atlantic Ridge and in my kiln, is a process I love. Transformation. Brown is slurry from drillings into Earth's crust applied inside and outside on translucent porcelain. | ||
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| 8.5" x 1.25" Says on back, "Kane Fracture Zone Slurry Melted." Other glazes are copper green, tenmoku, and green matte -- all assembled from refined materials. | | | 5.5" x 2.25" Earth crust slurry from cut up drillings into Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Kane Fracture Zone -- melted onto translucent porcelain. Other glazes -- shiny brown and copper green were assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 16" x 4.5" Center from 5 Antarctica Sites surrounded by drillings into mid-Atlantic Ridge at Kane Fracture Zone, framed by mud from a Kila Moana cruise to Lau Basin, north of New Zealand -- thanks to many many people and their reasearch. Exterior lavender assembled from refined materials. | | | 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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| 5.25" x 1.75" Earth crust slurry from cut up drillings into Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Kane Fracture Zone -- melted onto translucent porcelain. Other glazes -- shiny brown and copper green were assembled from refined materials. | | | Underwater volcanos and vents erupting along with scientist's voices impressed me so that after watching footage, I began to spew. I remembered an image and allowed a bamboo tool in my hand to flow into the clay, before collaring in the rims, which are more symmetrical then the bodies of these mugs. They're glazed with Earth crust slurry from the Kane Fracture Zone, as well as glazes assembled from refined materials. Most have sea glass thumb wells. Kane Fracture Zone Slurry Melted Drillings into Mid-Atlantic Ridge Earth Crust Slurry Melted | ||
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| 14.25" wide x 3.75" high Many small glass pieces in wells were covered by clear sea glass in the center. Very thickly applied slurry from drillings into the crust of Earth at the Kane Fracture Zone surround the glass. Brown glaze is thinly applied Kane Fracture Zone. Lavender rim is from glaze I assembled from refined materials | | | 4" wide x 3" high Very translucent porcelain got a big blob of soupy Earth crust slurry poured into the center. Some gassy event got frozen into the cooled bowl -- blistered and split showing tension between the refined porcelain particles and the unrefined rock slurry. Same slurry applied thinly on the exterior of the bowl fired smoothly. Band of asteroid-laden sediment is on the inside and outside -- in a narrow band underwhich words are written. | ||
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| 8.5" wide x 2.5" high Elusive qualities of beauty recognizeable by many people. Why? This one does it . . . conversations about what evokes this attraction make this one as rare as this color of sea glass. Kane Fracture Zone surrounds the center pool. Says, "exterior of Monterey Bay, thanks to fire." | | | 21" high x 6.5" wide Drillings into Earth's crust at Mid-Atlantic Ridge were cut and the resulting slurry is melted into glaze on the river-like area of this stoneware jar. Wells of sea glass. Shiny blackish brown glaze assembled from refined materials, also lines the interior. | ||
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| 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. | | | 9" high x 6.25"wide Chatter pattern in the clay was stained with slurry from drillings into the mid-Atlantic Ridge. The same material was applied evenly on the lower exterior area. Sea glass and basalt fill wells around the shoulder. Interior is glazed with a bluish-gray matte, assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| The wobbling of clay on the potter's wheel and the shakey structure of seafloor at ocean ridges seems similar to me, which is why I glazed the exterior with slurry from the crust of Earth at the Kane Fracture Zone. Enlarge and look at left side saying, "drillings into Earth's crust at mid-Atlantic Ridge (melted again)." Blue sea glass in the thumb well. Interior glaze is a shiny brown, containing wood ash. | | | 1.75" x 1.75" On porcelain (that has a great high-fired sound) is Earth crust slurry from the Kane Fracture Zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with a well of sea glass. The blue and turquoise have clear sea glass mixed in -- but color intensity comes from Christina's wine bottles, and marbles from --- a STORE! Yes, Joan is not ALWAYS a purist. People love the color. Use as you wish -- this clay is strong. | ||
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| 23" long x 14" wide x 4" high This event leaves me speechless -- unintended consequences told more truth about the place then I knew to try to control. Closeup inspection and turning and holding this is the best way to get it's messages. Kane Fracture Zone Earth crust slurry, and matte white glaze assembled from refined materials were what alchemy of fire used. | |||||
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