16 thoughts on “don’t bury my heart”

1. It is certainly a fabulous piece Veronica and I look fwd to the finished piece. Where would we be without traces of life experience!

2. Powerful work! Love this piece.

3. Extremely emotive piece Ronnie! …. Shame it has suffered along the way, but I’m sure the final expression will be worth your effort in the end!

4. See my latest blog on firing, it may be of help

5. The color and pattern brings me eye right up and over to the head. I love it as it is and interested to see what you will do!

6. Thanks Patti – something funny happened when I answered you the first and it came up under my partner’s account but I think I have remedied it 🙂

7. Do you have a photograph of this piece with the firing damage…might make an interesting sequence of images?

8. Happy accidents are the best! Having had a few myself…I just embrace them now. You are right, it “echoes traces of life experiences”. 🙂

9. Thanks Steve

10. Oh well… I think a little bit of suffering makes us who we are! but all is well with this piece thanks.

11. Thanks for your entry – yes slowing down the firing may have helped but I am using a community kiln with set firing procedures 0 – 200 degrees in four hours is the slowest I can go. I suspect that dampness wasn’t the culprit here – I try to push the envelope a little bit and had a mixture of terracotta, white paperclay , and another white extrafine handbuilding clay combined in the section that exploded – I think it may have been poor join – but I was surprised given the openness of all the sections that it happened. But thanks for pointing me in the right direction I am a newby and might get my own kiln one day 🙂

12. Thanks Elena from the front view only a small change has occurred it is the back that is different.

13. Ah that would have been a great idea – it would have been good to have a camera when I opened the kiln – the striped shoulder piece is the section that exploded but I have managed to mend the striped section and build a whole new section at the back with vintage metal meccano
    – this is probably a better resolution than the original. Thanks Al I will have to squirrel away your suggestion for next time – a sequence could make for an interesting process/documentation in quite a different way 🙂

14. It is like ‘change’ isn’t it… you have to embrace it and move on 🙂 but yes ‘happy accidents’ often push something in a direction you wouldn’t first have thought of – all good stuff! thanks

15. Hi Veronica, i like your piece and thanks for your appreciation on my drawing!

16. thanks and you are welcome 🙂

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