Wave Kilns I-III
Left: Wave
Kiln I, night firing, 8 ft. long, steel,
ceramic fiber blanket, propane, brick platform, Mills College,
Oakland, CA 1982.
Middle: Wave
Kiln II, night firing, 12 ft. long, steel, ceramic fiber
blanket, propane, brick platform, Mills College, Oakland, CA 1982.
Right: Wave
Kiln III, installation, 40 ft. long, steel, ceramic
fiber blanket, Kiln Projects: Works in Progress,
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. 1982.
Wave
Kilns I-II were fired as part of an on-going series
of experimental projects began in the late 1970's, to examine
the idea of a kiln as an agent of transformation. The Wave
Kilns I-III produce no ceramic product in the normal
sense, they are filled with only fire, forming effigies
of luminous waves in mid-crash. The firings of Wave
Kilns I-II were documented to produce mural-sized
photographic images of the material/image transformation
used in the exhibtion, Kiln
Projects: Works in Progress, centered around the
much larger Wave Kiln III, which has never been
fired.
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The images
elude to the firing of the larger wave, extending its potential
life into a conceptual dimension, of unlimited scale. Wave
Kilns I-III extend traditional sculptural concepts of
casting and molds, by the filling of a shaped kiln/mold of
a material, water, engaged in another transitory process,
with another transitory material/process, fire.
At the
time of firing of Wave Kiln's I-II, at Mills College in 1982,
several other, related kiln works were produced: Wave
Kilns I-II (Synthetic Landscape), and Study: Dendritic
Kiln (Steam). |
Furnace
Projects, Constance
Lewallan;
Kiln
Projects: Material and Process Experiments in/of the Landscape, John
Roloff
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