Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: nature

My front porch doesn’t get a lot of sun… so the plant options are limited.
Not surprisingly, I went more for texture & color than flowers! And to give it
a little height, a little animation and a little whimsy… I made squiggly plant stakes!
Very simple… I just cut “ribbons” of slab, corkscrew twisted them, then curved them
again in loose curly-ques! I then soda-fired them for that natural finish. I love how
they give fit right in… and I can’t wait to see what happens over the summer
as the coleus grows taller, the potato vine grows longer, and the spikes become
even more “incorporated” into my front porch garden.

5 Comments

Nancy

May 12th, 2010

These are GREAT!

May 12th, 2010

Thanks Nancy… so simple, and yet so groovy!!!

Pam

May 13th, 2010

I am stealing this idea. See what blogging gets you?

Pam

May 16th, 2010

OR, you can make a bunch and sell them to me. It may be years before I qualify for soda.

Alison

May 26th, 2010

Love the squiggles! I want to buy some for my planters.

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