Here's one of two large terracotta coil pots I fired over the weekend, featuring the pearly, crackled surface I get when I turn #clay from Ocala National Forest into terra sigillata. I'm making these pieces to be shown at upcoming exhibitions in #Florida, hoping to pique others' curiosity about this unique peninsula of limestone & sand that we live on. That curiosity can lead to greater connection with the Earth, something that many of us have lost along the way: https://potterybyosa.com/blogs/clay-people/fractured-fragmented-and-fragile
A closeup of the sandy clay deposit where we collected clay from in 2023. It's mostly white with iron-red interspersed throughout. It is visibly quite sandy, but with the telltale cracked earth pattern that tells you clay is present.
Extreme closeup of the surface of the pot showing its off-white color and a crackled pattern that looks like it wants to fall off the pot at any minute.
A photo of me, standing outside in the bright sunlight, holding a large spherical terracotta pot with a flared neck. The exterior surface is off-white and heavily crackled with a very slight sheen. The interior is unglazed, terracotta orange. You can only see the less than half of my body in the left hand side of the photo, mostly hidden behind the pot. I'm wearing a dark blue and black dress. The piece of pottery fills this entire width of the frame. The background is dense, green foliage.