Woodfired into Lightness
In maintaining my woodfired kiln, bricks have been replaced. These salvaged bricks, often broken in the removal process began to interest me. Each brick tells the story of its place in the kiln. The brick that held the firebox arch encrusted with dark pitted metallic like material; arch bricks covered in a grassy green fluid glaze that is molten ash that melts and remelts with each firing to light open textured insulating bricks further from the firebox that have taken on subtle colour changes where exposed to flame. The intensity of temperature and kiln atmosphere are written in the material
