Ceramics
Fishin' Friends (above/left) and Buggin' Around (above/right)
Low Fire Earthenware, Underglaze, ^1 Glaze
2023
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These two pieces were created to be complementary of each other. Fishin' Friends is a smaller wheel thrown vessel with sculptural additions of a blue ringed octopus and a velvet sea star while Buggin' Around is a hand built vessel with sculptural additions of insects and a lizard.
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Both vessels were built using a low fire earthenware, the sculptural additions were then coated in a white slip base and painted with underglaze before being fire to Cone 1 to achieve the earthy brown tones on the clay body.
Hyper Dishes
Mid Fire Stoneware, Underglaze, Textural Glazes
2024
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These three pieces were created as a challenge to think beyond what I normally do in ceramics. Using a combination of underglaze and various textural glazes I recreated typical nature scenes with atypical colors.
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The textural glazes used were found recipes that went through testing and then had varying amounts of stain to create the various colors.​​
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Ponyo And Kuromi Cup
Mid Fire Porcelain, Underglaze, ^6 Glaze
2024
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These cups were made as gifts for graduating friends, using imagery that remind me of those friends I stenciled out the images with a small ball point tool before painting the sections with underglaze. After firing I covered the image in a liquid latex before dipping it into glaze, this protects the image from the glaze and is peeled off when the glaze is dry and before the final firing.
Night With Friends
Mid Fire Porcelain, Underglaze, ^6 Glaze
2024
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The time I spend with my friends is some of my most treasured moments I have and this piece is the embodiment of those moments. The imagery in the middle of the frame represents the games I regularly play with my friends. ​
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This piece is made from a porcelain clay that I formulated the recipe for along with commercial underglazes and a commercial glaze. The entire frame is carved by hand then has hand painted imagery.
Moth Planters and Lantern
Mid Fire Stoneware, Underglaze, ^6 Glaze, Brass Hardware
2023
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This grouping of pieces was my first time combining ceramics and printmaking. The moth designs displayed on each piece were screen printed onto rice paper with underglaze and then transferred like a regular underglaze decal. The moth imagery came directly from photographs of moths that were then turned into a bitmap image and transferred to a screen to be printed. To keep a crisp background on the underglaze image white slip was applied to the back of them before transferring
Raku Heart Bowls
Mid Fire Stoneware, ^08-06 Raku Glaze
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These pieces were my first time doing raku firing so I stuck to a simple form of small heart shaped trinket dishes. The pieces were glazed and set in a raku kiln to heat up and after monitoring the kiln, turning the gas up regularly, and watching the cone packs inside the kiln the pieces were then pulled and placed in metal cans filled with sawdust and paper with the lids on to cool in a reduction atmosphere.