Galactic Pot Healing: Part 3

[pharminatrix]

Oh, my darlings, I've been remiss. When I started all this pottery business, didn't I promise regular installments of updates and photos? I did, I know. But once I got inside, there I was inside. And what happens inside there doesn't pack too easily into words. I warn my friends that I've gotten very boring these days. I've considered carrying

Comments

Nice Stuff

[vakratunda]

Let me get this straight, in NYC there are emissions regulations such that you cannot have a gas-fired kiln on your own property?

That's pretty fucking egregious.

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Re: Nice Stuff

[pharminatrix]

Apparently that's not the issue entirely. Because they do. I think it turns out to be more about what's allowable indoors and disposal-type issues.

Most people in the city don't have any PLACE to put a gas kiln. They converted an electric (hence the hybrid) but many gas kilns (as you may know) are about the size of horse stalls.

One more reason to go rural one of these days.

OK

[vakratunda]

That's nowhere near as bad.

Rural, yeah. Or buy up a city block and demolish the backs of all of the buildings a la Old Law Farm in "Little, Big".

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I.e.

[pharminatrix]

They happen to have a back outdoor area. Most studios in the city do not.

[maps_or_guitars]

Awesome post. Thank you!

[pharminatrix]

Happy to please. Now I can talk about all this stuff without having to clarify jargon in sidebars.

rambly meself

[bbcaddict]

I love the pottery babbling!

Those tea cups & saucers with the black & yellow are BRILLIANT.
I would buy those in a heartbeat.
Also- double brilliant if there was a matching teapot.
Oh and also black and orange. Yum.

Re: rambly meself

[pharminatrix]

I found them on the intarnet, which means they're probably for sale. Will definitely keep you posted on my own progress. I'll probably photograph the next batch to emerge from the glaze kiln, regardless of "success."

I can't wait to play with reduction firing.

I swear.

[pharminatrix]

It's compulsion.