Born to be Wild
Get your
motor runnin’
Head out on
the highway- Canada’s Steppenwolf with lead singer John Kaye. I almost wore out
his solo album.
Born to be
wild oughta be the theme song for Starworks Wild Clays.
Andrew and I went to
dinner the other night at Emma Smith and Jesse Black’s General Store. We had an
awesome meal, talked pots and likely bored Jesse to tears. Emma brought home
some nice pots from NC Potters Conference including a nice bowl from my ole
studio mate at USU- David Peters. Denny Gerwin organizing a midnight raid on
the pool didn’t surprise me. That’s our Denny.
Emma gave
me some high iron Wild Clay from Starworks that I made some cups outta. I don’t really look
for good throwing qualities in a clay. I look for good trimming. Possibly why I
don’t much care for porcelain. Hard to trim any nice loose gesture in it. Bruce
Dehnert is my fav at handling porcelain and I think that is because he wedges
wet silica sand into it which makes for some very nice trimming.
The Wild
trims beautifully with large chunks of aggregate that I thought was grog but on
close inspection some looked like chunks of quartz. I like the drag of
aggregate under a shino. It gives the glaze more character. One thing that is
weird about the Wild clay is when pulling handles it feels oily like it has
natural lanolin or coconut oil in it. It that just plasticity?
I’m making
a couple of 6 piece jars that hopefully will sport a big slab handle in the shape of the McDonald’s arches. I crave
a Big Mac but never eat them.I
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