Why Every Mug Starts as 420 Grams of Clay
Every mug I make begins on the scale, not the wheel: what weighing clay to the gram settles before the wheel turns, where the 420 grams go, and when I ignore the number.
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In her own words
This page is written with the creator during setup.
Notes from the studio: throwing and trimming, glazes and reduction firing, drying pots in the Galway damp, and how the work actually gets made.
What Reduction Firing Actually Does to a Glaze
On firing days I starve a gas kiln of oxygen on purpose. What that does to iron and copper, why my celadon only exists because of it, and why no two firings match.
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Drying Pots in a City That Is Never Dry
Why a board of bowls can take a week to firm up in a Galway March, why slow drying is mostly kind to pots, and the plastic collars, damp cupboard and radiator that keep my handles on.
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