Process
Raku firing
Raku means joy and pleasure in Japanese. I was lucky to experience American Raku in a workshop in the country. Raku is a process full of energy: the glowing red pieces from the kiln, then the flames when they hit the wood chips in the barrels, and all of us throwing more chips at the pieces while they're still hot, running around to create the best contrasts and cracks in all of our pieces.
It creates fully unreproduceable pieces with unique crack patterns.