Yes that's right people, I started firing my pieces (specifically the biggest ones in the Nordore kiln, its seven feet tall). We started the bisque on Thursday and will shut it off on Saturday and I should be able to open the kiln on Monday morning. I am excited and terrified at the same time, I feel like I constantly have this worried look on my face haha.
I'm drying out the rest of my pieces and will be loading them in the Blaauw kiln the next week and run another bisque, that way I'll have all but one piece fired and ready to glaze. The piece I am still working on is the one that goes into the ground then goes into the wall scales upward. That piece I will finish this weekend and begin drying out. 
As fore my surfaces! I fired some sames and came out with some good results and now have a refined direction. I am posting images of the sample I like the best (Amanda and Erica also gave me some really helpful feed back on them). I want to use multiple glazes on the same piece. Each piece will have some sort of unifying surface but I want the color and textures placement to vary on each of them. Amanda suggested some good ways of approaching my glazes looking to growth patterns of different organisms....also looking at bioaccumulation and where that forms. Overall I feel good about where I'm at and how much I have left to do.
I've been thinking about the installation and how it will look/be arranged and was thinking that I may want to put some sort of dirt or mulch on the ground under the pieces. I think it would drive home the idea of them as organisms. I know that dirt is associated with plants, but I like that idea that they'd be growing out of the ground (especially with the one going into the ground then reappearing)..... what do you guys think?? The floor on the yellow barn is hard wood, although not very nice, kind of degraded.
That's all for now. I LOVE NICE WEATHER IN MICHIGAN, its about time. Oh yeah fuck Rick Snyder.
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