the quiet one porcelain rolling tray

This came out so low-key and subtle I was tempted to refire it, and then I remembered possibly the most important lesson I've had this year: Not everything is for me. Perhaps it's for you.

Salt-fired porcelain makes this offering dish a natural fit for any tableau. Use it for blessings, blunts, or bialys (top rack dishwasher-safe, just clean and reuse). The "orange-peel" texture of the surface shows you the result of eighteen pounds of salt being introduced to the kiln as it hit 2000°F/1093°C.

Each piece of HighFired ware begins with cannab!s and clay. I press an actual fan leaf into raw clay and construct the piece. All other marks are made one at a time with a crowlike collection of tools. The work is left to dry. In the bisque (first) firing (∆04/1798°F/981°C), the organic material burns away, leaving an incredibly detailed imprint, an accelerated fossil, if you will.

After brushing away the resulting ash from the leaf and collecting it for future use (ash melts starting around 2000°F/1093°C), I go over the fine details with an underglaze, letting it settle into the veins, then wash most of it away. More glaze might be applied with a mouth sprayer, by dipping, with brush, and fingers, or sometimes left bare if going into an atmospheric finish firing. It is then fired again to around  2300°F/1260°C in one of three kilns: salt, wood, or reduction, to create the rich, layered finishes you see here. The entire process from start to finish can take months.

Differences in clay bodies, glazes, and finishing kilns make for as wonderfully varied a complement of work as there is in its collectors.

Size is approximately 7"w x 5.5"h. Top rack dishwasher-safe.