Ahhhhh!  Opening a recently fired kiln is like Christmas!  There aren't many experiences as exciting as pulling ceramics from a kiln and exploring each piece.  Even though we have created the piece, that last firing chemically and aesthetically changes every piece you pick up profoundly. Just like the adversities and challenges of life...they change us, and hopefully we come through them more beautiful than before.

This week we unloaded a soda firing at Hood College!  I learned so much during those long hours of firing....how wood, bark, oxygen, soda, timing, location, reduction, glazing, clay types, etc, all impact our work.  It was a great firing.