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View fullsize Inaugural use of these co-labbed beauts. @_sobremesapottery • Wine-soaked mushrooms, Thai larb with squash and turnips, and Thai omelettes on rice. #dididoitrightma • Come see it in-person @harrisoncenterarts on Aug. 6! #firstfridayhca &bu
View fullsize Ha! And you thought you were out of the woods on hearing about the wood-kiln build-and-fire project via my Instagram posts. • New article on the website (link in bio @prakun_pottery ). Enjoy! • @davidjphooker @t.e.hansen @chatty.cat.art @w
View fullsize FRIENDS, a glad announcement! 🎉 • “In This Sign,” a pottery show celebrating hospitality and peace-making, will open @harrisoncenterarts on Friday, Aug. 6th. Shown here are lidded bowls and a plate that I threw and @_sobremesapotter
View fullsize Today, in our wood fire programming, I present a luminary that was carved to look like a basket weave. The carving alone took 7 hours over two days. • Swipe for process photos. • Tomorrow I will announce some big news. (Hint: it’s a
View fullsize Rich with woodfired ash deposits and @deirdre.c.k skillful knowledge of native Indiana plants, this vessel is the piece I love most from the whole wood kiln firing last month. • It is a fermentation crock (think pickles, kimchi, sauerkraut&hell
View fullsize So much peachy blushing from this faceted mug. • #woodfire #woodkiln #theresacookieinthebackofthekilnforyou #partoftheshippartofthecrew #pottery #pottersofinstagram #ceramics #ceramicsofinstagram #keramik #keramika #handmade
View fullsize Roast a head of garlic with a pinch of salt in one of these lil’ guys, and you’ll get such spreadable goodness that you’ll wonder why you’ve only ever eaten butter on your toast. • #notknockingbutter #justtryitandyoullun
View fullsize Another hanging luminary from the wood kiln. Can you tell which incised design faced the firebox? 😲 • #lookatdatash #butnotcigarash #handmadeluminary #ceramicluminary #ceramiclantern #woodkiln #woodfiring #theresacookieinthebackofthekilnforyou
View fullsize Another mug from the wood kiln! Maybe one day I’ll get tired of posting these…but today is not that day! • #lordoftherings #lotr #woodkiln #woodfiring #flashingslip #pottery #pottersofinstagram #ceramics #ceramicsofinstagram #kerami
View fullsize Meet “Sm(a)ug,” a cup born of fire and wood ash. • My first woodfiring experience in 2017 made me want to explore surface designs with flashing slips more this time. Thus the use of a fine-tipped bottle to apply the claw marks on th
View fullsize “One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be…” • I can’t believe the creamy burnishes and ash deposits on this pot! The flashing slip (Randy Johnson) really took this luminary lantern to the ne
View fullsize Donabe, a classic Japanese lidded cooking pot, from the woodfiring! • #donabe #woodfiring #woodfire #woodkiln #theresacookieinthebackofthekilnforyou #partoftheshippartofthecrew #pottery #pottersofinstagram #ceramics #ceramicsofinstagram #kerami
View fullsize A lantern mug from the woodkiln. You can see how the flames shot around the circular wads on the bottom and left marks on the flashing slip. 😍#capturedevanescence #lookatdatash #butnotcigarash #theresacookieinthebackofthekilnforyou #partoftheshippar
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View fullsize A water blue gem from the woodkiln. #theresacookieinthebackofthekilnforyou #partoftheshippartofthecrew #woodkiln #pottery #pottersofinstagram #ceramics #handmade #blueblind
View fullsize Firing pottery in a wood kiln ranks in the top 10 things I would rather be doing anytime (the other 9 are probably related to food...) • Swipe to see a couple fermentation crocks before and after their firing. • More videos to come, but I&
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