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| Mike pours many colorful glazes over one another, using hot wax brushwork to resist between the layers (like batik). Fired in a natural gas kiln in a reduction atmosphere to 2400 degrees, the glazes boil and bubble in beautiful and unpredictable ways. This process is a bit like a man-made geological process where all kinds of earth materials are mixed together with water, fire and air and then wait for something alchemical to take place in the kiln. Additional firings are needed for the glass centers as glass will evaporate in very high temperatures. Different colors of crushed glass are placed in the center of the fired bowl and reintroduced into the kiln at lower temperatures at about 1400 degrees. The glass slowly melts into a pool of color. The temperature is lowered slowly to allow time for the glass to cure. |
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