Smoke Fire

This afternoon, i participated for the first time in a smoke firing. Essentially, you layer newspaper, saw dust, and paper over and over (with your pieces in side of course) in a large metal trash. From there you let it burn down ward toward your buried project. my latest piece was a skeleton hand and i really like how smoke firing turns out and i didn't have much time until i had to turn in my piece. Unfrotunalty though i have a lot of small pieces in the firing like the tips of fingers that i need to find.

concetnrtion

For my next concentration piece, I want to illustrate something using a hand holding a cigarette. I want the hand to be 'dead' like a skeleton. this will hopefully show like the delicatenes of the humna body and how some people take it for granted or somehting

Forest Fires/Deforestation

My next concentration piece is in the works. The materials are black wire, tree bark, and something to hold the two together like hot glue i guess. I will be making a frame out of the wire and glueing on pieces of the tree bark to it. Then I want to char the bark with a torch. However, i may want to do that before i glue the pieces on. the wire frame will be shaped in some kind of organic shape. I'm thinking of like a funnel shape, like one of those chinese yo-yo things.

Hunger