ONE AND DONE?

Illustrated is a stoneware handbuilt bottle with thick impasto slip and my Oribe glaze surface. Like with other one and done pots, this came about by using up the cut away slab pieces from slabs used for hump molded tray forms. What I was left over with were these unique shapes which immediately made me think of this form. Once assembled I took a few minutes and threw a neck/ mouth to complete the form, dried it out a bit and attached it to the slab body hoping they were close enough in consistency. I “sacked” it (in a plastic bag) for a day and then applied the thick impasto slip and once out of the bisque, no losses, no cracks and the neck was still firmly attached. A quick bath in three different glazes and though it ran a small amount, overall not too bad for a one and done made out of scrap slabs of very specific shapes. I am not thinking this is something I am going to chase to the ends of the earth but it was a neat way to spend a half and hour and a couple less pounds of clay that would have had to have been reconstituted, in other words, a win-win.