Twice Fired

These mugs have not had an ordinary go of it.

I form them of Dover stoneware sourced from the Rocky Mountain Front Range. Then, instead of putting them into the low-fire as I do with all my other mugs, I put them through something a lot more intense.

Then I glaze it.

Then I fire it again.

These mugs probably don’t understand why they experience such hot times. But that first firing makes the clay resist the glaze so just the barest amount remains, and highlights the texture, and contributes to a unique and wondrous beauty.

I’ve been through some hot fires. You, too?

No wonder why we’re both so beautiful.