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Navajo Etched Pottery
The
pottery is made of red terracotta clay, painted on a wheel while
the clay is soft then lines are scored in the clay creating the
designs.
Navajo Horse Hair
Pottery
Horse Hair Pottery is fired using a special
technique. Fine lines are created with the hair from the mane of the
horse, and thick lines are created from the hair of the tail. After
the pot is fired, it is rock polished; no paint or glaze is used.
This horse hair pottery is handcrafted by the Navajo Indians . Each
piece is a unique, one of a kind, irreplaceable piece
Raku Pottery -
We feature the works
of Ben Diller and John Clayton. Raku is a style of pottery that
combines the hand of man with the whims of nature.
Raku is an ancient technique of
firing by which a glowing vessel is removed from the kiln
immediately after the glaze has reached the temperature of about
1900 degrees. During this critical moment, iron tongs and layered
clothing sometimes maintain safety and success while transferring
the vessel. The piece is then nested in a container(sometimes simply
a hole in the ground) with a bed of natural materials: sage,
sawdust, pine cones, leaves or sticks; creating a reduction of
oxygen. This reduction process causes heavy smoke which darkens the
clay body and alters the glazed surface. Minutes later, pieces are
removed and plunged into cold water, “freezing” these otherwise
transient colors, leaving the unique beauty of black, copper lusters
and crazed surfaces found in the raku creations. The perils of the
process, the series of thermal shocks from traveling the four sacred
elements--earth to fire to air to water--leave this unique vessel
porous, semi-fragile and holding the captivating flavor of
ancient experiences.
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