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Golden Ash Wild Glaze Etched Mug

$70.00

This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.

Specifically this piece is made from clay gathered the Oregon Coast Range, and glazed with wood ash, granodiorite, and hematite. 

Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.

This is a truly unique piece of the local landscape, hand sculpted from the ground up. All the clay and glaze materials were gathered in the Pacific Northwest.

Specifically this piece is made from clay gathered the Oregon Coast Range, and glazed with wood ash, granodiorite, and hematite. 

Unlike my typical earthenware, pit-fired porous and beeswax sealed pottery, this has been fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.

Clay is a miracle; a gift made of the decomposing earth. Ever cycling, ever changing.

Only in the last 70 years has global clay commodification become so prevalent in ceramics, in the United States that few are making pottery from their local earth.

But ceramics is intrinsically a craft of the land, an expression of a region, because clay is so unique from one geological formation to another. To harvest local earth and make with it within in the limits of what is available is an act of resilience, belonging, and subversion.

I dug and water processed the raw clay, removing the rocks, sand, and organic matter. Then it is hung to dry, until ready for blending and wedging. All of my pottery is hand built, no wheel. After stone burnishing, I fire them once to prepare them to receive glaze. The glaze minerals are milled and sifted, before mixing with water and applying. Shaking the glaze together in a jar is one of my favorite parts.

Thanks for taking the time to learn about the process of making this collection of wild glazeware!