New pieces from the kiln
It has been a long time since I published anything on instagram. I have been missing it but I have been really busy.
Last year was a crazy one, in all senses. We had just found out I was pregnant when we all had to lock down. The world stopped for a while, and so did I to grow a tiny human. For us it will always be a special year because we completed our family with our little girl. She has just turned one. She is all we could dream and more.
This last porcelain collection was made while we were lock down in our houses and I was expecting our baby. Because of this it is made really slowly and with a lot of love. I like to think that all the curvy shapes and tiny details were influenced some how by her.
I try to work really carefully and always attach porcelain with the same content of water in it. I let the porcelain dry really slowly, something like for ages, to prevent cracks happening when the shrinkage occurs unevenly enough within a piece. Anyway I still get some cracks in the places I attach the handles or the legs. I have to keep on working on improving this process but I must not expect a porcelain to dry as well as a stoneware. Maybe it is just I should not make this kind of shapes using a porcelain. I have read pieces which has differing thicknesses and has angular contours in porcelain may not be practical.
I keep unglazed biscuit porcelain on the outside. It is warmer to the touch and I love the white velvety appearance it has over the soft shapes. So I glaze on the inside to make the ware functional. But this is also creating stresses in the pieces. So I guess I work against myself.
How do you get porcelain ware without cracks?
