The Fire on the Mississippi banks of New Orleans, Louisiana, NOLA Fired-Up! It was a great success! Beautiful sculptural kilns and great fires all around! Filling up the paper clay “VASE KILN”. Closing of the kiln. Starting the fire. Fire from within. Continue Reading
Next day, I put the clay slurry with magazine paper on the in- and outside of the kiln. Thicker paper and with colors (the chemicals in the ink) on it make it more refractory. Around 3pm a group of high school kids from an NOCCA art center came to have a look and they helped me ... Continue Reading
On Wednesday, February 27, I arrived in New Orleans to participate in the NOLA Fired-Up Conference. I arrived at midnight. It is an easy city to drive in, so, I found my hotel alright in the French Quarter. It is an old city and where I’m building the kiln, the devastation ... Continue Reading
I just received some pictures from Steve Tootell of the finished kilns. Look at the steel frame work around the kilns and chimneys for support during the heat expansion of a firing. Euan’s kiln. Kusakabe-san’s kiln. Continue Reading
This will be my last post about the building of the wood fire kilns: Euan Craig’s Anagama and Masakazu Kusakabe-san’s Dancing Smokeless Wood kiln. I will return home to Kamakura and then to the Netherlands. and return in October for Steve Tootell’s “Fantas ... Continue Reading
The building of the kilns progresses incredibly fast. The walls are finished and the arch will rest on it. Here the inner layer of insulating fire brick is being laid. The arch is being build. In a very precise manner with different sizes. Still only one row left and working ... Continue Reading
They worked hard today and even started to build the arch of Kusakabe-san’s kiln. In the afternoon, the damper was in the chimney and the walls were already well above the grates of the fire box. They had put a tarp over it in the evening and I couldn’t see the kiln ... Continue Reading
Secondly, I feel lucky to be here, because Kusakabe-san and Euan Craig are building their kilns at the moment at Furuki-san’s clay center. I will fire those kilns with Steve Tootell’s workshop in the end of October. So, they have the Mashiko Building Kiln workshop at ... Continue Reading
