Raku firing

It took me a long time and much negative criticism… before I found a way of using the gift of being accident-prone in a positive way. I became a raku potter. Not in the traditional Japanese tea-ceremony sense, of course, but I learned to accept and use accidental happenings when making and firing my pots. I gave up trying to be in control. This was also a way to simultaneously combine my obsession with working with fire, bricks and clay. I must have built almost as many kilns as I made pots since the large scale of the pots demanded a special kiln for quite a few of the pieces.