I can't afford to test materials for the fun of discovery anymore. E-mail me for the fee schedule I use to estimate costs of experimenting with your material. |
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| First trial of a sediment that seemed so full of carbonate I didn't expect it to melt, but it did. I placed a piece of clear glass on it, which caused puddling into the adjacent writing. Click for larger image to read more. |
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| Carbonate from coral and ferromanganese particles crushed and fired -- I didn't expect it to melt so I placed a piece of glass on top of the sample -- unfortunately I mispredicted how much glass would flow that I don't see the result of the coral Drake Passage sample by itself. I'll try again next firing. Click for larger image if you want to read more. |
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Coral Click on the image of any section below to get a page of many items. click on images to make them larger. A few people have given me coral and I fired some. It emerged from the clean pristinely clean and, fascinated and eager to share, I placed fired pieces into my bike basket and rode a short distance to show the scientist who gave it to me. After a block of vibration the coral was powder. I tried experimenting again by splattering some white glaze onto another test in the next firing. That worked until a day after -- that sat all by itself in an empty room and disintegrated just from the weight of time! |
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| Each is a sample from Vibracore samples taken by R/V Argo Maine in 2002. Not for sale, request commissioned work if interested. |
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| The lower stripe is a test sample from Borderlands, given to me when I visited Scripps in 2002. This one has a crack. |
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| Samples on porcelain, not for sale. Request commissioned work if interested. Exterior is a thin layer of sediment on carved porcelain. |
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| 27" high Thanks to the the WHOI team for allowing this non-working guest (pot in box) to ride on cruise Knorr 191, when they deployed Jim Broda's new long core system. Celebrating the stories that appen in their world has been something I have enjoyed doing, so I made this as a gift. I designed it so people aboard the ship could apply the material themselves, and carve their names and record history through their direct touch. Click twice more to see the largest image of the names. Two samples of Bermuda Rise sediment are on here: first is top from 1998, the darker is from 2007 CDH10. Both were labeled the same water depth of 4,583 meters through the water. The core depth of this cruise was about 35 meters (previous cores attained about 31 meters.) |
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| Many samples, lovingly described, with meaningful provenance, this is the test piece before making an urn for Dad's cremains. These samples are from rocks ground by a geologist for this purpose -- all hands on were in the family. |
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| A series of introductions led to these gift samples which I fired ... the wonderful data recorded on the bags by Jenny Paduan delighted me with legible and interesting information, that helped me with my brushwork. Keep clicking to see biggest image of piece before firing. |
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| Before and after photos testing lava granules I got after R/V Oden and their crew returned from newly investigated places, which I couldn't find on a map. Commenting about this in an e-mail, science writer Lonny Lipsett wrote this in return: "No, you wouldn't find 85°N on Heezen/Tharpe map. Until the mid-1990s, the only Arctic seafloor data U.S. scientists had was from a handful of ice stations on drifting ice floes. It wasn't until the mid-1990s that U.S. scientists got any seafloor data from the Arctic at all, and even now, we have very little." |
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