Corrosion Vessel

Stoneware, electric kiln 1240°C, commercial glaze

A vessel shaped on the wheel and fired in an electric kiln at 1240°C. Commercial glaze applied by hand - but what happened to it in the kiln belongs to no catalogue. One area of the surface shows what I call corrosion. The glaze broke down and rebuilt itself into something that reads like weathered rock, old metal, a surface that has been somewhere and come back changed. Rust tones shifting into grey, rough texture against the smooth body of the vessel. It is where the name comes from. Functional as a vase. Powerful as an object standing alone. A single stem placed inside changes the whole room. One of a kind. Made in Berlin.

Wheel-thrown stoneware. Commercial glaze applied by hand, fired in an electric kiln at 1240°C. The corrosion effect on the surface is a result of how the glaze reacted to the heat in that specific area - unpredictable, unrepeatable. The kiln decides as much as the maker.