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When you look inside one of these pieces, your mind enters into an intimate miniature "room." Moving it around in relation to different light sources produces a variety of lighting effects both inside and outside the piece. The porcelain is chemically between a clay and a glaze, and must be ground fine in small batches. It is very prone to cracking and slumping in the kiln, but produces a silky surface to touch, and a very high degree of translucency. |
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These pieces are made primarily of epoxy resin, a two-part liquid which, when mixed, heats up and slowly hardens. It must be built up slowly in layers or the batch will get smoking hot and melt the mold. Like porcelain, resin can be worked in a variety of ways depending on the degree of liquidity or solidity. Different resins have different degrees of viscosity, speed of cure, durability, etc. Many are naturally amber in color.
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