With the arrival of autumn, wood fire season is here. I am currently busy creating a new series of work to take up to Washington State to participate in my fifth wood firing in the Thai style thu-riang kiln I help to fire there. Because no grate is used in either of the fireboxes in this style of kiln, the interaction between the wood ash and pots seems to be greater to me and my cohort of wood fire junkies.

This year an abundance of wood was prepared, so it is likely if the energy is high enough among the twenty person crew of stokers, then the kiln will be fired an additional day with the hopes the pots will be even more juicy and colorful. Please check back here in late November to see my new work out of the kiln.