Continuing the Journey

 

These tiles have been glazed & Raku fired and are finished. However, as you can see I unfortunately lost the very essence of what I was trying to capture. All the depth, contrast, & texture has been changed into something that is flat, blends in, and glossed over. It all comes down to the unpredictability of the chemical & physical changes that can happen while glaze firing. I was extremely excited about this project & realized half way through that this would be a long term commitment. I was once told by life changing mentor that "one shouldn't  be married to their idea" but in this case I feel as though the commitment I am making to the clay is necessary to discover the most effective way of translating my concept. In other words I am on to project #3 but I am not giving up on the possibilities of this past project. Today I went into the studio and made 7 more tiles. We'll see how they turn out.