2012 Wheel work The top and bottom rows are decorated vases from July 2012. Many of
them have features that were built up with clay or carved and painted
surfaces. The various bowls shown use a variety of oxide decorations,
carvings, and building up with clay.
2012 Black Clay
The first piece was created during the Creamer's Field Wild Arts Walk. The
second piece was made during my first farmer's market in September. This
black clay was fired to ∆6 without any glaze. The surface is lustrous and
smooth with an strangely skin-like quality.
2011 Spring and Fall
Starting with Beginning Ceramics in January of 2011, I created several
interesting hand-built projects. On the bottom row is a series of large star
shaped bowls that were designed in SolidWorks before being built with clay.
On the second row is Stevie (large musk ox) which was accepted to Earth,
Fire, Fibre out of the Anchorage Museum. My dodecahedron (center) has a
starfish on every face. The tessellation bowl uses a pattern based off of
M.C. Escher's fish. It unfortunately developed a very large crack during the
glaze firing. On the top row is Pablo the mammoth and two tiny teapots
created during my beginning throwing class.
2011 Stained glass starfish dodecahedron
In the summer of 2011, I had to spend over a month in Anchorage. With
limited space and no house projects to complete, I put my extra time toward
fencing and stained glass. The twelve tiles had a rather complex overlapping
pattern; each starfish is also on the five neighboring faces. Each face took
around 8 hours to complete and had about 30 pieces of glass. The finished
project is a rather large and nearly perfect hallow dodecahedron. There is
no opening to the inside.
