WBW NEW BEGINNING

By way of WBW, Way Back Wednesday and some new beginnings; illustrated is a pair of larger “lip bowls” glazed in my temmoku and iron yellow glaze. This is what happens when you push and test so much you can end up at someplace that you either don’t recognize of have changed something so much it is clearly not that same as when it all started. After this firing, realizing this was probably the end of one long cycle of testing and seeing how long it was before a surface might fail, I started testing the overglaze in earnest to the eventual outcome which I refer to as my saffron glaze. To be honest, it didn’t entail nearly as much testing as the iron yellow glaze did in the first place but after all I did have a fully functioning, melting and no longer crawling glaze from which to start. I wonder now if I started at the beginning or just ended at the end a bit earlier than usual?     

"And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time."  T.S. Elliot