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This ceramic wall sculpture or "glaze painting" was made using a raku / lustre glazing technique that I developed using a technique from glassblowing modified to work with ceramic glazes.  This is not a traditional raku process and is able to develop lustre colors that are permanent and will not oxidize with time.  My ceramic glazes are one of a kind and unique from other ceramic artists.  The unique work is purely a non-functional wall art piece to be displayed only on a wall and comes ready to hang.

This is one of my first attempts to add non-abstract character to my tile production.  From here I started adding more structure to my hand built tiles which I usually make from acid etching models or by combining strips.  Here we see the strips becoming a flower.