Filling the mold with casting slip; it can be opened after about 40 minutes.
The plaster mold absorbs the moisture from the casting slip. The seems of each ring are scraped then softened with a sponge.
The solidly cast ring is then cut open while it is still wet.
Closing the wet ring with casting slip
Weaving the ring into a chain mail patten.
Attaching wet green rings (dark) to bisqued rings (light)
A long strip of chain mail is first bisqued. Then the long sides are connected to form a tube and bisqued again. I often work directly inside the kiln and/or on a kiln shelve to minimize moving the works before firing.
The two ends of the tube are connected into a donut then bisqued once again. Lastly it will be fired up to cone 10.
Take every opportunity to experiment, play, discover affordances.
The cast handle connects two bowls for a communal dinner event.
Casting double walled bowls that will connect to another one.
These tools encourage coordination and interdependence and create a social space around eating.
Cast rock cups for "Stone Soup" where people are invited to forage for both edibles and tools.
Cast rock cups as part of brick patio installation. The large rock contains wine.
Baked brioche in terra cotta "bricks".
Brioche brick inset into brick patio at Magnan Metz Gallery in Chelsea NYC
Foraged Japanese knotweed shoots.
Foraged weeds: purslane, lamb's quarters, garlic chives, chicken of the woods mushrooms.
Kiln baked bread in extruded ceramic tubes.
Carving spoons from maple lumber.
Carved spoons from various types of wood.
