Imperfect

 This is actually the top part of a three piece stacking sculpture.  It was quite amazing...with little shelves and cubbies and places to hang things and places to burn things and a really cool poem about not being perfect, written by an Atlanta poet, carved all over it.....alas, it broke before it made it to the bisque kiln....cracked right where the poem said  "I will embrace my imperfections".....soooo, this part's been sitting on a shelf for almost a year just staring at me.
  Monday, before the explosion and after much propping and adjusting and anxious debate, it JUST fit into the raku kiln.....it's the largest thing I've ever raku fired and it was very heavy....and very hot and there was much concern when it wouldn't drop down into the reduction can...it just sort of stuck there in flames but my cohort Joyce saved the day by wacking it with a humongous pair of tongs and it was sucked right down into the can.....getting it out later was a challenge but...it survived!...although some of the colors are not what they should have been....