Micaceous Wave Bowl dig deep and make sure

dig deep and make sure your olla is buried all the way up to its neck

This size olla is good for circular gardening

The clays used on this pot were foraged from Louisiana

carved and painted with clays from Alabama

After firing

Micaceous Wave Bowl dig deep and make sureBecause of where I live, I spend a lot of time observing waves in bodies of water. This 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.