Introduction he trails are more legible on the black, hydrophobic soil now that fire has ashed the coastal chaparral. To collect ash for ceramic glazes, we follow the paths written before the blaze by rabbits and rodents, coyotes and deer. Sometimes we gather from single, identifiable plants, pale shadows of ceanothus and yucca and laurel sumac.1 Fired ceramic cones stand near ruptures and entanglements, mapping assumptions about safety and danger. Orange-red Phos-Chek falls from planes in patterns ahead of […]
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