READY & WAITING

Since our house is built in to the ground, generally speaking my studio stays at a somewhat constant temperature of around 60 to 65 degrees but today is a bit different. With well over a foot of snow, the storm has given way to a cold front and it was -11 this morning which resulted in a studio that was just a bit below 50 degrees. From my perspective this is an environment that is just not really conducive to glazing so calling an audible, I called a cold day. I have a good handful of pots ready to go when it warms up a bit and illustrated are two previously decorated and glazed/ fired teabowls that are somewhat similar to a small group of teabowls that will be glazed up in Oribe, ash, saffron iron and an amber as weather permits. There is an upside to the cold snap in the studio, it gives me a bit more time to consider what glazes to use on what pots and eliminates the last group of pots all being glazed exactly the same.

"Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind." Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The time is always right to do what is right." Martin Luther King Jr.