Micaceous Rocking Bowl This coil-built vase draws inspiration

This coil-built vase draws inspiration from Ancestral Puebloan ollas once used to gather and store water

high-pitched udu drum made from terracotta clay mixed with foraged clay from Florida

Unique orange crackle surface

Roomy four-finger handle

Wheel thrown red stoneware clay vessels

Micaceous Rocking Bowl This coil-built vase draws inspirationThis piece was coil built with micaceous clay that I used for the first time during my art residency in Taos this past summer. Clay containing metallic flecks of mica is naturally occurring in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. Traditionally it was used for cooking pots because the mica acts as a temper reducing the risk of thermal shock which leads to cracking. Today, both Native and non Native ceramicists use this clay to create works of art.