X MARKS THE SPOT

I put together a rather short slideshow video of a bowl that was fired a few weeks back using my new NOA (Nuka Oatmeal Ash) glaze with masked white and black slip decoration underneath. I like working with bold geometric forms as design and the X and O flanked by the varying stripes works well around this bowl form. By ash glaze serendipity, there are a number of contaminants in the ash that I used and in this case, copper spots showed up on the inside floor of the bowl and directly over where the X marks the spot. Not planned but of all the places for a copper spot to show up, this is arguably highest on the list.