THE GREAT MATRIARCH
1990
by Eric Whollem
pumice from Mt. Shasta in polymer emulsion
on white clay
10"
Private collection
PHOTO COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST
Many of my sculptures utilize earth pigments bound in
polymer emulsion as a final painted coat. These
pigments would burn out in a firing, as they are 'found
earth,' which seldom is of the type of mineral body
suitable for firing in a hot kiln environment.
Usually an earth pigment requires a measure of kaolin,
or mineral clay, to be suitable for adhesion. However,
I am not alone in painting my ceramics after firing, as
this was practiced in ceramic arts all through the Americas,
where glaze was never developed in clay sculpture and
pottery.
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