It is funny how
things sometimes work in cycles; this particular decoration started back in the
90s and every now and again it pops up to come full circle. In this case a
thrown stoneware bowl was coerced square and then white slipped, gently combed
before having black slip spontaneously trailed across the planes. Once the
semi-vertical lines were created, the spots were added via finger painting the
slip to add some punctuation to the lines. All in all, there is nothing
revolutionary here, just a simple assembly of several ideas all under my GB
amber glaze meant to imitate the old Cushing Albany amber as best as possible
minus the Albany slip and the Cushing recipe. Last but not least since every technique
needs a name, this was originally referred to as khaotique by a Belgian student
at CSU and for lack of something better, it just stuck.
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