Cooking Pots
Micaceous cooking pots are created using the traditional coil and scrape method of hand building. The walls are built up and joined at the top to form the lid. Knobs, handles and medallions are added. Then the pot is sliced into lid and base.
A ‘firecloud’ blessed this pot.
During my first woodfiring at my teacher’s house (Filipe Ortega), we left the fire to walk down to his house to feast, and the lid to this casserole slid off the fire. My guess is that the firecloud flowing out of the medallion resulted from a piece of burning ponderosa bark that probably cushioned the lid’s roll way from the fire. This is my favorite cooking pot.
- Fire Cloud Casserole