Back from six weeks of indulgence in food, friends, family and art and design.

Really inspiring was the playful form constructions of concrete and clay at Esben Klemann's show at Bornholms Kunstmuseum.

I am leaving this behind tomorrow morning, for six weeks, to catch up with friends and family in Denmark.
I am hoping it will be just as blue a sky, but a bit warmer.
And hopefully I can post lots of pictures from friends studios and exhibitions over there.

Glass is glass is mostly sand..

I never leave the beach without photos

Sand can do so many patterns and shapes

And I have had a lot of use out of just plain sand in the workshop
casting in it, blowing hot glass into it*, modelling shapes in it..


*another post, another day

My husband is keen on baking and apart from the obvious benefit of nice fresh bread, I now have two beautiful and practical stone worktops for anything involving plaster. It comes from him wanting a cheap baking stone, hence asking at the local kitchen table top makers, if they had any off cuts spare. Turns out, they are happy to get rid of them for free, they have to pay pr. kilo otherwise. A bit of cutting with the angle grinder may be necessary, but you don't get a better value for money (read= beer) or a better non stick, easy clean plastering work surface.

Let me know if you need a good pizza dough recipe now..

these are halves of plaster moulds before I close them up
and fill them with crushed glass. I love some of the forms hiding inside.
I would like to make glass in the shape of the actual plaster mould,
the negative form of what I model with my hands.
It will take a lot of reverse process and some silicon I think.

One of my favourite books is by Haruki Murakami
It made me start working on something like this





but I haven't been able to cast this type of shape
without it cracking. I guess there is a lot of tension with the corners.
I have to try a trick, mixing paper pulp in the plaster/silica mould.
That should make the mould more flexible and maybe leave room for the glass
to contract in the annealing?

I want to use this spotted look again and again
and I am working on smaller things with a hint of use





in two days my kiln will be cooled down and ready to open
for some more spotted tests in a different shape to come out..

I really don't!

And you would never find me sharing my thoughts

- in that big letters on a building.


but I will share my thought from my setting-up exercises
for what I make in this