News
Clay in Chaos: A 28-Hour Wood Firing on a Lake
Seventy-five minutes southeast of Dallas the elements of nature convene on a grassy peninsula: Lake water laps gently under the shade of oaks and elms whose leaves rustle in the wind, and soft earth yields under leathered footsteps. This is where, in less than 48 hours, flames will lick from small-mouthed apertures in a pink adobe-clad train kiln. Where, last November, clay artists, friends, and helpers trickled into potter Louise Rosenfield’s shared lake house situated on Cedar Creek Reservoir’s silty shoreline. A wood firing gathers them.
The Art of Notice
Each of us has a distinct palette of colors, textures, and materials that we are innately drawn to but have forgotten in response to an overabundance of synthetic materials that eradicate...
