10.5" wide x 1.5" high This set includes sediment samples that are almost gone. All brown shiny centers are glazes assembled from land based materials. Ask for a quote on a commissioned set based on your interests. |
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| Bermuda Rise sediment on rim, thanks to R/V Oceanus, 1998, and Lloyd Kegwin's paleoclimate research. Shiny brown glaze is a Tenmoku that I assembled from refined materials. |
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| Costa Rican area sediment used on rim. An accretionary prism is where Earth's plates jam into each other -- they collide and bump and yeild, and friction makes heat. Particle size of this materials is very small. Shiny brown glaze is a Tenmoku that I assembled from refined materials. |
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| Antarctica sediment used on rim, thanks to R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, and researcher Rebecca Gast. To sparkle the dull brown, I used some black sand from Deception Island, thanks to Erich Horgan, and a cruise by R/V Knorr in 2005. Shiny brown glaze is a Tenmoku that I assembled from refined materials. |
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| Indian Ocean sediment glaze on rim. Dated by visual inspection of foraminifera, estimated to be 35 to 40 million years old. Thanks to R/V Atlantis II. Shiny brown glaze is a Tenmoku that I assembled from refined materials. |
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| Rim is glazed with sediment from the Mediterranean Sea off Ashkelon, Israel. It was taken from inside an amphora at a Phoenician wreck site -- either Tanit or Elissa, 8th century B.C.. See "Places" page at www.thesoftearth.com for more information. Shiny brown glaze is a Tenmoku that I assembled from refined materials. |
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| Rim glazed with sediment from a hot briny place in the Red Sea. Water temperature in the area when this sample was taken was 133 degrees F. Shiny brown glaze is a Tenmoku that I assembled from refined materials. |
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| Rim glazed with sediment from Santa Barbara Basin. Brown shiny glaze I assembled from refined materials. |
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| Indonesian Seaways samples, obtained in small bags, were combined for this glaze. Samples were given by Delia Oppo from scrapings after splitting, capping, and storing of cores taken a few months before the tsunami. Thanks to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the ship Baruna Jaya. Central shiny brown glaze is a Tenmoku that I assembled from refined materials. |
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| Rim band is glazed with Lau Basin sediment. Tag on bag given by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Dan Fornari, says D 54 MUD, Kilo Moana 4-17. Seamount Lau Basin.
19° 45.45’ South, 175° 43.43” West. Central shiny brown glaze is a Tenmoku that I assembled from refined materials. |
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| From west of Africa, the golden speckles are likely to be shells of foraminifera. Art historian M.J. Kemp called this "A speckled galaxy of organisms." I have the bucket labeled as "The Dark Cemetary." This came from a 4 inch layer in a core -- below it the concentration of carbonate was so great that it looks more like mustard when it's fired. I love this as a representation of the metaphor -- ocean as womb and tomb. |
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| From U.S.C.G.Healy cruise 02-02, this sediment is unusually glassy, probably from silica. I was told there's lots of opal in it and the raw mud is filled with whitish speckles. Most of the Bering Sea samples are deep brown, and somewhat metallic, like a saturated iron glaze. |
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| From a small sample, different from all my sediment samples, in that lot's of organic material from seasonal blooms, deposits during brushing, but burns out during firing, leaving lots of reddish salt blush on the spaces of clay. |
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