Hey yall. I got my website up! It's actually been up for 2 months but I think it's fair to say we've been through a couple of crazy months and things have fallen by the wayside. The IP to my ego can be found at link in my bio description. I'm still going to be posting to both my blog and my website so ya can enjoy both.
I have to thank the talented Janelle Low for these pics. This pot was one of my favourite little surprises from last year. Like petrified lava, this glaze appears to be in it's viscous state while being locked in strict silica chains. Oxidized shino, damn you can be pretty. I love shinos, a good gloss with a honey like melt state. Some glazes run like sled dogs, Shino doesn't run, it oozes. High temperature refractories like aluminum oxide gives it it's thickness while unfused silica give it it's opacity. I love that little window where the glaze has pulled back onto itself. The tension giving us some bare skin we can ogle at.
I've heard many potters say it's not really a shino if it's not in reduction. I do think there's a point to that. That orange blushing the glaze smiles with. The black carbon trapped spot's that blister a form. These are all qualities that come best from the lick of the flame. Shino loves reduction, this glaze shows off the drama of a burning kiln. The two were made to be together. Shino loves reduction, but right now I love this pot. Reduction or not shino has always got something to give, something to showoff . Shino glows like drying amber yet feels like polished marble. Shino you pretty.
Have a sus of Janelle's photography, is legit
@janellelow_
http://www.janellelow.com/
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