Wheel-thrown bird-footed bowl | Reclaimed stoneware | 4" diameter × 5" tall | Oregon clay
Goes everywhere. Touches everything. Completely unafraid.
Scout is wheel-thrown from reclaimed stoneware — a mix of every clay body that's passed through the Portland studio, fired into something that knows exactly what it is. The legs are left bare, unglazed, because the clay after firing is a warm toasty brown that doesn't need any help. It just needs to be seen. The feather collar is Bronze Tenmoku — deep, dark, almost black with that rich glassy depth that makes the bare clay legs look even warmer by contrast. The bowl is Weathered Bronze, the custom glaze developed at the Flint Institute of Art in Michigan — luminous aqua-turquoise with soft speckle and warmth, sitting on top of all that darkness like something that arrived from a completely different world and decided to stay anyway.
The meeting point between the Weathered Bronze bowl and the Bronze Tenmoku feathers is where this piece lives. Two browns that couldn't be more different. The glaze wins. The clay wins harder.
Scout is part of the Flock — sculptural bird-footed bowls born from reclaimed clay, each one completely one of a kind.
One of a kind. Scout exists only once.
Wheel-thrown bird-footed bowl | Reclaimed stoneware | 4" diameter × 5" tall | Oregon clay
Goes everywhere. Touches everything. Completely unafraid.
Scout is wheel-thrown from reclaimed stoneware — a mix of every clay body that's passed through the Portland studio, fired into something that knows exactly what it is. The legs are left bare, unglazed, because the clay after firing is a warm toasty brown that doesn't need any help. It just needs to be seen. The feather collar is Bronze Tenmoku — deep, dark, almost black with that rich glassy depth that makes the bare clay legs look even warmer by contrast. The bowl is Weathered Bronze, the custom glaze developed at the Flint Institute of Art in Michigan — luminous aqua-turquoise with soft speckle and warmth, sitting on top of all that darkness like something that arrived from a completely different world and decided to stay anyway.
The meeting point between the Weathered Bronze bowl and the Bronze Tenmoku feathers is where this piece lives. Two browns that couldn't be more different. The glaze wins. The clay wins harder.
Scout is part of the Flock — sculptural bird-footed bowls born from reclaimed clay, each one completely one of a kind.
One of a kind. Scout exists only once.
