I’ll make into an archway at the entrance of the world I build myself.\u00a0 I think of the ceramic 9 Pines Art sign that Sergei made for our studio homestead in Kentucky.\u00a0 Each letter was an exquisite stoneware sculpture that he made with a thick, flat base and four pre-formed holes for rubber grommets and bolts that held it to the Ponderosa-style arch of weather treated 4 x 4’s we dug the post holes for ourselves in the rocky Kentucky hills over 2 hell-days.<\/p>\n
The 9<\/span> was a mossy green glaze I made called My Adaptation of Hamada Green, the P<\/span> was a matte lavender glaze recipe from LillStreet ceramic studio, and the i<\/span> was oatmeal-looking spodume, but the n<\/span> was dark, shiny cobalt \u00a0blue, and at night it became invisible, even in headlights, so that after dark, we inhabited 9<\/span> P<\/span>i\u00a0<\/span>e<\/span>s<\/span> A<\/span>r<\/span>t<\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ll make into an archway at the entrance of the world I build myself.\u00a0 I think of the ceramic 9 Pines Art sign that Sergei made for our studio homestead in Kentucky.\u00a0 Each letter was an exquisite stoneware sculpture that he made with a thick, flat base and four pre-formed holes for rubber grommets and … Continue reading projects<\/span>