Comments | merana_artist: playing in the mud

merana_artist

playing in the mud

Jan 17, 2009 10:00

I stayed at home this week instead of heading to the apt. in hopes of making strides towards finishing up a long-term house project. I have been slowly working on a ceramic mural installation over the hot tub on the back porch. It is a triptych loosely inspired by an old Pacific airline's travel poster (ocean, palm trees, hibiscus, volcanoes, ( Read more... )

kiln, home, ceramics, art, clay, work, explosions, mud

Comments 4

allah_sulu January 17 2009, 20:06:50 UTC

At least you didn't actually blow up the kiln. I saw "I literally blew it…" and started worrying about the condition of your garage/Mustang (I assumed you weren't caught in the theoretical explosion, or the tone of the post would be different). In any case, off the subject, we were just thinking of you this morning. I was playing random videos on my computer for Richard, and one of them was your TV interview for Gates of Savannah.

small explosions merana_artist January 17 2009, 20:37:05 UTC

nah, just about 20 small explosions of pieces inside the kiln...you see, gas expands and clay contracts, so wet clay has more sealed spaces and goes BOOM!

Re: small explosions allah_sulu January 17 2009, 21:08:35 UTC

Science!!

careyonly January 18 2009, 04:34:12 UTC

That's quite a project!
Bummer about blowing up a bunch of them.

I hope you'll take some pics at some point, I'd love to see your mud makings.