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.
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