By Diana Baur

I guess you can say I am.  Dishoriented, that is.  I can get lost in glaze formulas.  Quartz, tin oxide, titanium, feldspar, copper carbonate.  I’ll spend hours forgetting about everything, sitting like a nerd in my studio calculating molecular weights of raw materials and how to get a glaze to flow, to shine, to be matt, to be beautiful, and to melt at the correct temperature.  To have enough give that it stretches with the clay when the temperatures reach 1250 degrees celsius when the kiln atmosphere is white hot. Then I get out the scale and mix the raw materials to create raw glazes, that are applied to pieces that have been fired once... More...