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Past Work - Saggar Ceramics

An experiment with a different firing method. I managed to miss the first session where students made tubular containers out of layers of newspaper and clay slip which were then left to dry for a week. The containers were formed using cardboard tubes that were removed prior to drying. The objects had previously been biscuit fired but weren't glazed.

	This is a head I made a year or two ago while playing with clay with grandchildren. It's inside a clay-and-newspaper tube and I'm packing stuff in and around it - stuff in this case being sawdust, copper carbonate (the green stuff in the photo), seaweed, bits of copper, straw, bits of cloth - almost anything!
	The containers and contents were fired in the same oil-barrel type kilns used for raku.
	End result. I like the way it's accentuated its aged look.
	A pot I made specially for the experiment. I burnished (polished) the surface of the clay when it was leather hard, prior to biscuit firing. The line around the neck comes from copper wire. I used some much other stuff I can't really connect cause and effect with anything else! I like the overall effect, though!

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