Mugs & Cups So many places to organize so I made sections -- keep clicking to get images and descriptions of many items. |
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| Mappable Hydrate Ridge Mappable Hydrate Ridge Hydrate Ridge Mappable Hydrate Ridge Pelican Fly-over Monterey Bay | | | Bermuda Rise Luckily Hot Bermuda Rise Bermuda Rise Flame Path Speaks at Bermuda Rise Where Gulf Stream Turns Mappable Bermuda Rise Mappable from Bermuda Rise | ||
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| Mediterranean Exit of Rhone Mediterranean at Exit of Rhone River | | | Mappable Hydrate Ridge Mappable Hydrate Ridge Hydrate Ridge Mappable Hydrate Ridge | ||
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| Arctic Seafloor Mappable Arctic Seafloor Arctic Seafloor Arctic Seafloor Melted | | | Drillings into mid-Atlantic Ridge, when used like a stain, show nuances in clay surface that make me swoon. Earth-Crust Slurry Thick & Thin Wobbling Earth Diverging Plate Rock Slurry Highlights Porecelain Surface Drill, Cut, Melt Drill, Cut, Melt Remagmized Earth-Crust Rock-Slurry as Seismic Metaphor? Rock Powder from Earth's Crust Melted Opaque & Sheer Remagmized Rock Sheer & opaque Rock Slurry Melted Seismic Metaphor Melted Rock Slurry Speaking. . . | ||
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| Antarctica, Several Sites Mixed Antarctica Several Antarctica Sites Antarctica Several Sites Several Antarctica Sites Antarctica Five Antarctica Sites | | | From drillings into the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Excellent description by one of the science researchers comes with these, and Googling Kane Fracture Zone offers more. Mid-Atlantic Ridge Kane Fracture Zone Slurry Melted Pencil-Writing into Earth Crust on Damp Clay Mid-Atlantic Ridge Rock Slurry Varied Thicknesses of One Volcanic Material | ||
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| See map of Mud Patch area by downloading a pdf at the Provenance page (sidebar at left of page). Mud Patch -- South of Martha's Vineyard South of Martha's Vineyard Vineyard Sound's Seafloor Mud Patch Mud Patch Mud Patch Mud Patch CUP: South of Martha's Vineyard CUP: South of Martha's Vineyard CUP: South of Martha's Vineyard CUP: South of Martha's Vineyard | | | Namibian Rock Powder Interior White Glaze on White Clay "Snowball (or Slushball?) Earth"? Snowball Earth Theory | ||
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| Horseshoe Crab Horseshoe Crab Horsehoe Crab 26°56.78’ North 91°21.75’ West | | | K-T Boundary, about 65 million years ago contains iridium anomaly from an asteroid impact thought to have caused dinosaur extinction. Earth Crust & Space Dust on Stoneware Earth Crust Space Dust on Stoneware Down Deep Out Far Porcelain (with some translucency) Porcelain (some translucency) Down Deep Out Far Down deep Out Far Earth Crust Space Dust & Carbon-Trap on Porcelain Earth Crust Space Dust on Porcelain | ||
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| Santa Barbara Basin Monterey Bay and Hydrothermal Vent Monterey Bay | | | Note the effects of using materials on vertical surfaces - understand why I mostly use sediments on the top third of mugs? I used to get rid of the losses, now I keep them close by to learn from their lessons. The string is double the size now. | ||
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| The glaze reveals undulations in the clay surface, the light moves through the clay wall with varied intensity--most of these fit in one average-sized hand. K-T Band Layers Over Wobbling Earth-Crust K-T Band Above Rock Slurry K-T Band Above Earth-Crust K-T Band Above Mid-Atlantic Ridge K-T Band Above Mid-Atlantic Ridge K-T Band Above Mid-Atlantic Ridge K-T Band Above Mid-Atlantic Ridge K-T Band Above Mid-Atlantic Ridge K-T Band Above Earth-Crust | | | Thanks to Alan Steinbach's carving into clay! | ||
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| Thanks to Alan Steinbach's carving into clay! | | | Black Sea's seasonal blooms made fibrous layers alternated with fine mud -- it's the exterior glaze on translucent porcelain clay. Interior is shiny brown assembled from refined materials. Seaglass thumbwell. | ||
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| On porcelain clay, words say Indian Ocean Eocene 35 to 4o million years old. The sediment has a rough texture that contrasts with the very smooth interior glaze that was assembled from refined materials. | | | Impressed plants burned out of the clay and were then stained with shiny brown sediment from the "Bottoms" area at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. Interior is matte white and exterior is green, both were assembled from refined materials. Bottoms say what the common plant name. Kansas Grass Framed by Kansas Mud Kansas Grass Framed by Kansas Mud | ||
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| Four Alaskan Inlets Glacier Bay Four Alaskan Inlets Glacier Bay | | | 5" x 3.5" Brown sediment glaze is from Penobscot Bay. It was near the flue in the kiln and I think the heat was intense in a small area that is reminiscent of burnt marshmallow--it actually provokes more inquiry that if it had all been glossy. Interior glaze assembled from refined materials. Seaglass in thumbwell. | ||
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| Amphora Sediment from Phoenician Wreck Amphora Carried Wine Amphora Sediment from 8th Century B.C. | | | 5.5" high x 3.5" wide Japanese culture has reverence for tea bowls, we use mugs. On occasion a mug embodies something that makes it cost more than most. This one is from a rare sample that's close to gone and it's one that suspends the froaminifera shells as mustard-colored calcium dots. Says, "Atlantic sediment, foram-speckled galaxy of organisms. Dark Cemetary." I often think of Ocean as womb and tomb. Interior glaze is shiny brown and greenish on exterior bottom are assembled from refined materials. Red glass in thumbwell. | ||
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