Sculptural kiln made with local wild clay . Primitive ceramics

This beauty has survived more than one wet winter with almost no cover. The kiln was fired 4 times only, the duration of the firings being around 12 hours, slowly increasing the temperature till 700 degrees celsius and then left to cool down.

The construction of the kiln was part of a experimental workshop with the participants were helping throught the building proccess. We used local wild clay, I combined tecniques used in bioconstruccion and ceramics. They clay, an earthenware high in iron content and some sand, was mixed with dry leaves and more sand, there were some bamboo leaves and they proved to be the best to work with in my opinion.

Ater setting the foundations we started to build up the firebox. The firebox has two holes/mouths. They are very helpful to start the fire and also when we want to increase the temperature.

The final shape is quite femenine, a sexy tree trunk form with a sexy belly botton and decorated with shells.