Touch Starved

“Touch Starved” is about the isolation that comes with depression. This piece is sharp and delicate on the outside but soft and welcoming on the inside. The sharp exterior showing the walls that are put up with depression but that even if it is difficult to push through these walls, the person they are inside is often much kinder and welcoming.

Touch Starved began as a porcelain coil pot, with a small base and wide angled mouth.

When the piece was leather hard, I mixed 5 gallons of cone 10 porcelain casting slip in preparation for the texture

I bisque fired the vessel, and then prepared it for the soda kiln.

Lastly I soda fired the vessels to cone 10 with 8lbs of soda ash

I then began to add the texture. I would dip a cotton ball halfway with casting slip, and then stick it to the piece. The cotton balls will burn out in the firing, leaving a thin shell of porcelain.