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| 5" high x 3.5" wide Top third is seafloor sediment from the place named. Interior is a shiny brown glaze (it has a small amount of Red Sea in it) and exterior is a lavender glaze, assembled from refined materials. Thumbwell is filled with blue glass. | | | 5.5" high x 3.5" wide Interior and exterior both covered in marine sediment from the exit of the Rhone River. Blue glass in the thumbwell. Says, "Where outgassing makes geoclutter." | ||
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| 5" high x 3.5" wide Interior and exterior both covered in marine sediment from the exit of the Rhone River. Blue glass in the thumbwell. Says, "Where outgassing makes geoclutter." | | | 5.5" high x 3.5" wide Interior and exterior both covered in marine sediment from the exit of the Rhone River. Blue glass in the thumbwell. Says, "Where outgassing makes geoclutter." | ||
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| 4.5" high x 3" wide Very translucent -- glazed inside and out with sediment from the Mediterranean at the exit of the Rhone River. It was brought to me after an Oceanus cruise that investigated outgassing that was fogging sonar -- called geoclutter. | | | 3.75" high Bottom third is from a mixture of ocean sediment and samples from Bramsfield Strait, Elephant and Deception Islands and Erebes and Terror Gulf. Thumbwell of blue glass from a ffiend's wine bottle. Interior shiny brown and exterior lavender were assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 5.5" high x 3.5" wide Earth crust slurry melted,is exterior glaze, which is written on mug. Tenmoku is the shiny brown interior and top third. Thumbwell is filled with greenish cloudy glass. No words written on the mug about the materials, but comes with information about the Kane Fracture Zone on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, from where the slurry/glaze came. | | | 4" high Petite and translucent porcelain clay glazed with Black Sea on the exterior top third. Seaglass thumbwell. Interior celadon and lower matte glaze on exterior are assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 3.5" high Says Black Sea, seasonal blooms, anoxic. The sediment is on the exterior third. Interior shiny brown was assembled from refined materials (with Red Sea substituted for yellow ochre.) | | | 5" high x 3.5" wide Earth crust slurry melted,is exterior glaze, which is written on mug. Tenmoku is the shiny brown interior and top third. Dull brownish black is the Kane Fracture Zone material by itself. Thumbwell is filled with greenish cloudy glass. | ||
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| 5.5" high On exterior lower half is sediment glaze -- says, "Costa Rican Accretioanary Prism where Earth's plates {image of two arrows pointing towards each other with squiggle in middle symbol of COLLIDING}." Interior shiny brown and exterior lavender assembled from refined materials. The overlap of these two plus the critically purrfect temperature make the hot deep purplish. | | | 6" Says, "Costa Rican Accretionary Prism - plates colliding making heat." Sediment glaze is on the bottom half. Interior shiny brown and exterior lavender band at base were assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 3.5" high A small skip of celadon glaze on the inside shows how translucent this clay body is. Exterior brown is sediment from Orca Basin, thanks to Julie Richie. | | | 3.25" high Price is for one. Indian Ocean exterior sediment is the only mud I have for which I've been told the age -- it was dated by visual inspection of foraminifera -- 35 to ro million years old. Interior is shiny brown -- assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 4.25" high On porcelain clay. Exterior brown is melted Earth's crust slurry from cut up drillings into the mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Kane Fracture Zone. Sea glass thumbwell. Interior is celadon. | | | 5" high Pelican flyover stamped into porcelain. Dark brown exterior is melted drillings into Earth's crust at mid-Atlantic Ridge. Red glass in thumbwell, thanks to Eben Franks' donation of family glass made red with gold. | ||
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| | | | 6" high x 3.5" wide Marine sediment is lower half of the exterior. Pelican made from a stamp carved by Alan Steinbach. | ||
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| | | | 5" high, average Arctic seafloor glaze by itself ion the lower exterior third, with coordinates and depth inscribed there. Brown lustrous glaze is the seafloor material from place identified. This link to learn more at Polar Discovery newsletter. Top third is celadon glaze (used on interior) applied over the Arctic seafloor sediment. Handle has a dimpled area filled with melted seaglass. This is from R/V Oden cruise summer 2007, thanks to WHOI biologist Tim Shank. Commissions of ten or more warrant a discount -- ask. | ||
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| 5.5" high Indian Ocean sediment is the golden brached pattern oon the exterior. Writing says 35 to 40 million years old, Indian Ocean Eocene. The forams were dated by visual inspection. Interior shiny brown was assembled from refined materials. | | | If you want to spend less and take pot luck from an assortment using these materials, order one and I'll send it. They all have shiny brown interior glaze, thumbwells of glass, and vary in size from 4 to 5 " in height. | ||
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| 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 | | | Hydrothermal vent granules brushed on the vent shape and Monterey Bay sediment on the top third. Click to see bigger images and more description of what's currently available. Hydrothermal Vent & Monterey bay Hydrothermal Vent & Monterey Bay Hydrothermal Vent and Monterey Bay Monterey Bay and Hydrothermal Vent | ||
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| 6" high x 3.5" wide Bottom exterior is the marine sediment from the large marine ecosystem called California Current. The sediment is from Santa Barbara Basin. Note seaglass thumbwell. Interior glaze and turquoise exterior are 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 Kansas Grass Framed by Kansas Mud | ||
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| 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. | | | The amphora-filled sediment went to a conservator who did tests. Then he gave it to Sarah Webster at WHOI, who used it to test equipment for GENTLY removing sediment from archaeological sites. I got a phone call from Sarah (I never met her) who asked if I'd like it, because she was leaving town and she was finished with it. | ||
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| K-T Boundary, about 65 million years ago contains iridium anomaly from an asteroid impact thought to have caused dinosaur extinction. Crust and Dust | | | 5.25" high x 3.5" wide No sediments, easy application, like a poem this was the last I glazed -- made assymetrically from dancing with wobbly clay -- I just centered into exhaustion and only this word came to me as I glazed the last piece for this firing: whirling. Black glaze made from cobalt mixed into clay mined in Albany New YorkThumbwell filled with melted glass. | ||
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| Google for more, but my understanding is an accretionary prism is a ridge constructed from deformed sediments scraped off the top of a descending oceanic plate where two continental plates are colliding. Costa Rica with Squidling Costa Rican Accretionary Prism | | | Porcelain with no marine sediments -- just some sea glass in the thumb well. Small and slender -- good for a shot of something. | ||
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| Deception and Elephant Islands, Erebes and Terror Gulf, Bramsfield Strait and sediment from 163 degrees south -- all mixed as precious small supply becomes smaller. Antarctica | | | 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. | ||
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| 3.25" high x 3" wide Black Sea is anoxic and has seasonal blooms which left fibrous material in the sediment which burns out and leaves space where the salt shows that it interacted with the exposed clay and the silica in the clay combined with salt to form an orangey blush. Interior glaze i9s shiny brown assembled from refined materials. | | | 3.5" high x 3" wide Exterior is from Southern Ocean. Interior shiny brown assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 3.5" high x 3" wide 'Where outgassing makes geoclutter," is what I was told about research at the exit of the Rhone River -- because bubbles in water at the exit of the Rhone were fogging sonar. | | | Alan Steinbach is a well rounded diversely skilled man -- a friend who doctors, administers, fishes, kayacks, makes found sculptures with music, shell necklaces, and has created case-based medical training. On the side he carves and leaves porcelain stamps around my studio -- fish and limulus and this squidling. Thanks Alan. Squidlings Click on the image of any section below to get a page of many items. click on images to make them larger.
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| 4.5" x 3" Top third is mixed Antarctica materials. Interior shin brown and exterior hot lavender were assembled from refined materials. Thumbwell of seaglass. | | | Where outgassing makes geoclutter. Mediterranean Exit of Rhone (sold & requestable) | ||
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