I was going through an old folder of images and came across several of my pieces from The Roadside Attraction series back in their early greenware (unfired clay) stage. I thought I would pair them together with their fired appearance to show the progression.
This first one will show up eventually in its own post (once I complete it), I just wanted to include it so I could talk about being a bonehead while handling my own work. I was transporting this piece to the kiln room and grabbed the horizontal block projecting perpendicular to the upright block/mass piece, and popped it clean off from the rest of the work. Eventually I will make a 'sign' piece to replace the block (and just seal it into place with glaze). The lesson is: stay focused on the task at hand. I just let my mind wander and in an instant later, messed up a piece. Easy mistake to avoid, and I should know better, but here we are...
In fact, I pulled a similar maneuver with this next piece, it was just later in the firing process. I wasn't paying attention, and next thing I knew, I had two separate pieces. Bonehead. A series of near-comic mishaps happened to this piece between the bisqueware stage and what ultimately came out of the glaze fire.
You can readily see that it's missing a couple of bits...
Don't worry, I saved those 'bits'. They'll be showing up in a future piece of some persuasion...
Anyway, on to the heart of this post, some 'before' and 'after' shots.
There was a similar sense of relief when this one came out of the glaze kiln still intact.
Next time we'll take a look at the two parallel bodies of work The Roadside Atrractions and The blank Scape Vista series.
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