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| 14" long x 7" wide | | | When pots touch in a kiln and glaze welds them together it's called a kiss. This one had leaned on another during a shelf collapse and, when separated, left this chunk of the other attached. | ||
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| 14" long x 7" wide Areas of Alaska, California Current, Western Pacific Islands, North and South Atlantic and Carribean. | | | Exterior glaze from Washington Margin, off the Columbia River, thanks to Tim Eglinton at Wopods Hole Oceanographic Institution and R/V New Horizon. Interior is shiny brown made with wood ash. Thumb well filled with shards from Christina's wine bottle. | ||
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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 | | | First sediment used, from east of Virginia in the Atlantic Ocean. Other glaze is lavender, I assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 6" x 3" Gulf of Mexico sediment glaze on interior. Click to read exterior band. Interior copper green center and exterior matte green were assembled from refined materials. | | | 6" x 3" Exterior band of words says, "Gulf of Mexico LME - tuna - oil - salt domes - conundrums." Interior glaze is the sediment. Exterior green matte and interior center coipper green glaze were assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 14" x 3" Ships Maurice Ewing and Point Sur brought these sediments ashore. No other glazes are used. Click back image to read about materials used on this piece. | | | 9.5" x 4.5" Thanks for two fish impressed with a stamp carved by artist/scientist/fisherman/M.D. Alan Burr Steinbach. Coordinates written on back, so click for more and bigger images. Copper green, matte green, and rutile slip are glazes assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| 11.25" x 3.5" Seven marine sediments brought to shore by seven ships, named on the back. | | | 11.5" x 3.75" Priced high because of well-articulated branching pattern. Sediment glazes: interior from North Atlantic (making fabulous dendritic rivulets), exterior from Gulf of the Farallones, marine sanctuary. 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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| 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. | | | 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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