by Bristlecone Pottery | Jan 25, 2022 | Saggar-Fired, Sold
Description Fancy Fumarole – a humorous name, but indicative of the volcanic origin of many of the substances with which I create my work. For instance, ferric chloride, the liquid iron source responsible for the pink/red/orange/purple part of the color spectrum that...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Jan 25, 2022 | Saggar-Fired, Sold
Description “In the Beginning… God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Genesis 1:1. A verse that inspires all manner of metaphors, visual and literary, and encourages our...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Sep 30, 2021 | Bristlecone Pottery, Saggar-Fired
Description It has been a difficult summer, little rain, all-pervasive smoke, fire on every hand. The Green River has dwindled in some places to puddles among the Utah red rocks. The desert waits, in suspended animation, for the return of rain. Many people know 2...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Sep 30, 2021 | Bristlecone Pottery, Saggar-Fired
Description Grizzly Creek’s fire and floods in the summer of 2021 is a salutary lesson in counting the cost before one begins to build. The most expensive 12 miles of road in America were nearly destroyed when a lightning strike fire, followed by torrential rains,...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Sep 30, 2021 | Saggar-Fired, Sold
Description “A Bowl Full of the Universe” is named for the star clusters and orbital paths that appeared under the saggar wrapping as it fired. This piece has a “history” shall we say. I built it in 2003 and it moved with us twice, from...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Sep 30, 2021 | Saggar-Fired, Sold
Description Luna’s Bowl is named for the mare who belongs to a neighbor here in Buena Vista. The 3 circular squiggly swirls were created by Luna’s tail hair, positioned over the ferric chloride, sugar crystals and bits of copper wire that created the imagery, during...
