Petrification ✄ A Cardboard Gorgon’s Undertaking [paper to stone]

Test Tile (agaric)

Terracotta tile with pieces of crushed casting slip

Bisque | 960 °C

Glaze | Botz, Coral Red & Lava | 1040 °C

Test (organic trypophobia tube)

Slip trailed layers of terracotta on found cardboard tube

Bisque | 1040 °C

Untitled Object(s)

Brushed layers of stoneware on found cardboard objects with final layer of terracotta

Separate elements | bisque fired | 960 °C

Bisque fired elements joined with slip

Second bisque | 1040 °C

Glaze | Botz, Ironstone with stoneware and terracotta slip | 1040 °C

Musky Stang

(stoneware with string, feathers and patchouli oil)

Rolled stoneware lengths, dried, cut to size and joined with slip

Layers of paper thin terracotta stuck on surface

Bisque | 960 °C

Terracotta slip with found mixed glaze (frosty rust brown)

Glaze firing | 1240 °C

Terracotta beads

Bisque | 960 °C

Test Tile (spiral)

Stoneware tile with slip trailed terracotta spiral

Bisque fired | 1040 °C

Glaze | Botz, Glossy Ochre | 1040 °C