Liscannor five, 2008
Translucent porcelain, glazes, including an ash glaze made from the wood of wind and wombat-felled eucalypts in home paddocks, and burnt over the 2008 winter in a wood-burner for warmth in the house. Wombats are brilliant excavators and their burrowed home tunnels undercut the root sysytems of old gum and bloodwood trees. With strong winds to gales on the Woonjeegaribay highlands, these fall in paddock and remnant forest. One large old paddock gum has provided years of firewood after falling, and its root base is still the scaffolding of a burrow system. It has, in turn, provided natural re-seeding of its immediate area, and a new ash glaze, which over the last few months has begun to reveal itself.
