Ceramic artists are special group of people, but wood firing potter is the most unique in my mind. Went to Justin Lambert's kiln opening down in Jupiter this morning. It's not a very big kiln, but he has a big heart to let other people to participate and share his hard work. Firing a wood kiln these days is kind of like insist on riding a horse, when everyone is driving a car. You not only go slower, it costs a lot more to feed, clean and keep up with it. For most untrained eyes, those are just boring brown pots with black spots. For people like Justin, they will spend a life time, enjoying chopping woods, staying up days and nights to keep the fire going, playing with flames and ashes, seeing pots born and die, beautiful or not so beautiful...... and spending days to clean up and making more pots........ Just because, there's no other ways. They just have to do what they have to.
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