THE KILN
a gas reduction firing · one night
you fire the kiln at a small community pottery. nine people share the
studio, and firing is everybody's work at once — yours and theirs. you can't see
in. you can't undo. and at the end you find out what the fire made of it at the same
time as everyone else.
1 · load it
nine named shelves, each with its own heat and atmosphere.
where you put a piece decides what it becomes. then you brick up the door.
2 · fire it blind
twelve hours on three knobs — gas, air, damper. no window.
you steer by a spyhole, a stack of bending cones, and what the kiln sounds like.
3 · open it
it cools for longer than it fired, and you can't open it hot.
then you take them out one at a time and find out what you did.
never fired one before? read
how a firing goes first — it is two minutes, and it is the whole game. press ? any time.
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