Page 54 - Texas Dimensional: Fine Art in Three Dimensions Catalog of Work

LINDA MANNING
BOERNE

The ability to try something new holds me to clay as my chosen art form. Trying new and
risky things keeps my work from being static and me bored.

In this series I’ve chosen to work in the raku and saggar process. Using bare clay with
no glazes to add pattern or color, instead, I paint with organics, fire, smoke, temperature,
and time. The raku firing process has been around since the 1580’s. One of its main
characteristics is removing the clay piece from the kiln when it is at its firing height. Saggar
is a container used during the firing process to enclose or protect ware being fired inside a
kiln. This firing method creates confined atmospheres within the container or saggar which,
depending upon the organics or chemicals you use, will create various marks and colors on
the ware.

I suppose clay can be a metaphor to our lives. We don’t have full control of any outcome but
through the journey, decisions we make, corners we turn, doors we go through, eventually
leads to every moment…and everything that is our story.

A Study in Smoke,
2022

Coil built; Raku clay;
Saggar fired
14” x 9” x 5”
5lbs
$895