What others say about Living Clay
“Priscilla tells a tale much like the ancient and pure tales of the creation of the first being from clay, how it was drawn into being by a longing, slammed around, kneaded, moulded, given feature, fired, and given to speak.”
Bernard Pomerance, Author and screenwriter
“It has been rumored that Priscilla can hear the clay think. Perhaps it is true: I don’t know. But I believe it much more now than I did before I read her book. All the while I thought her greatest talent was at the potters wheel or with clay in her hands. I was wrong: it is with the pen she excels and I was deeply moved by her words.”
Forest Fenn, Author
“I bought a pickup load of adobe bricks and a yard of dry caliche mud from the local adobe maker in Santa Fe. A bale of straw from the barn served to binder and lighten the dense clay. No special tools or forms were needed, just a hoe, rock hammer and trowel and lots of elbow grease.
A foundation platform was built from the old rock pile. Thick adobe bricks were seated into soft adobe mud, each layer growing until the dome was closed into an igloo form. Fire bricks were redeployed from the ceramic kiln to finished the edges of the arched doorway. A very heavy silicone carbide kiln shelf nicknamed “hernia” became the permanent oven floor. The door itself was fashioned from heavy slabs of mesquite wood. Then we plastered the outside with soft mud and straw. The wet plaster shone like yellow gold.”excerpts from upcoming book
on mica pots and horno cooking