Sculptural kiln made with local wild clay . Primitive ceramics

This kiln is 16 months old now. It has survived one wet winter almost no cover,it is an outdoor kiln, and now it is going through the second even weter winter... The kiln was fired 4 times only, around 12 hour firings, slowly increasing the temperature to reach around 700 degrees celsius and then left to kool 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.