"Ethel Shipton and I go up to Vermont in the summers with some friends and we have a studio up there. One of the things I did last year was that I made a bunch of these bottles. The Boston one was made up there, Stratton one was made up there, some of them were fired in an electric kiln like the one from Boston but this one is fired using a process called Raku, which you fire the kiln to a particular temperature and then you open the kiln while it hot , like really hot, like red hot and you take the pieces out with like tongs and you can either just let them sit or you can do different things like put them in a bucket of wood chips or grass. Different materials, and you get different effects. That one was actually just plunged into water at like 1500 degrees, and it crackled, the glaze crackles. And you kind of get that dark, ashy stuff that gets kind of trapped in the cracks. In the fishers. Its just the glaze has these almost microscopic cracks. The ceramic body isn't cracked at all, it's just the glaze. So that one is really kind of experiment. Once you sort of, depending on the glaze you use and the material you put it in you can kind of after a while get a sense of what it's going to do. But its always some what irregular or somewhat, a bit unpredictable. "- Nate Cassie Interview Quote