Drying

Pottery clay cracks when drying if some parts of the piece dry out more quickly than others. When clay dries, it shrinks. If one part of the clay is shrinking faster than the other, this puts an internal strain on the pottery. The clay cracks to cope with the strain.

For many years I focussed on sculpture, and I cast most of those pieces in plaster rather than firing them.  And when I started to …