Big lidded stoneware jar, texturized with the magic roller. The big spot of glaze is called a Potter’s Tear, a big dollop of melted ash that fell from the shelf above. Twelve inches tall and nearly as wide as though to say “I am large, and full of cookies.”
Wood firing is my favorite thing and I’ve been doing more of it this year. I make pots out of stoneware, my friend Mark Rowntree and I have a new clay body we mix ourselves, and the pots go in the kiln largely unglazed. There’s Mark’s little kiln in Philmont, which fires in just over two days, and then every year we go fire Joy Brown’s big anagama in Connecticut with all our other friends. The pots from this kiln are my favorite, the longer I look at them the better I like them. They’re a little more expensive, but oh so worth it.
