Bonita Cohn on mon 16 aug 99
Wish I could remember the artist's name who displayed at the ACC Fair this
past weekend: She did sculptural animals, and had little ones she called
something like "kiln god toys". Her text explaining their meaning said, in
effect, that the kiln gods we make as potters to place on the kiln, are
"toys" for the kiln gods. They play with these instead of messing around with
the wares we have in the kiln, thus protecting the firing from their
mischief. Thailand has a kiln god festival (they had one here at the Asian
Art Museum a few years back).
Bonita in misty San Francisco, up late and surfin'
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Mo and Les Beardsley on tue 17 aug 99
Bonita Cohn wrote:
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> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Wish I could remember the artist's name who displayed at the ACC Fair this
> past weekend: She did sculptural animals, and had little ones she called
> something like "kiln god toys". Her text explaining their meaning said, in
> effect, that the kiln gods we make as potters to place on the kiln, are
> "toys" for the kiln gods. They play with these instead of messing around with
> the wares we have in the kiln, thus protecting the firing from their
> mischief. Thailand has a kiln god festival (they had one here at the Asian
> Art Museum a few years back).
> Bonita in misty San Francisco, up late and surfin'
> http://cpmg.com/anagama
> http://silverhawk.com/ex99/cohn
Hi Bonita
Just to say the Tozan kiln has its kiln gods and rituals too and we
can't do without them!
You can see how the Tozan firing is doing as pictures are being
downloaded every day now on our site at www.tozan.bc.ca.
Regards from Maureen....Tozan groupie!
Carolyn Denslow on wed 18 aug 99
As far as I learned the greeks were really big on the kiln gods back in b.c
times to ensure a safe firing
and...
Just a little side note on kiln gods, I was told that if the people loading
the kiln had enough time to build a kiln god it would be a good firing
because they weren't rushing
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