#im hoping its just New School Jitters but im getting some Not Good pings on my radar

[bigmammallama5]

Stupid hurricane is postponing our train kiln firing this weekend. We’re still unloading the soda kiln tomorrow (unfortunately I don’t get to help, I wasn’t able to take work off) and we’ll load the train Saturday when it’s more calm. But then it’ll sit there for two weeks until the 12th.

And idk one of our new residents is trying to change stuff about the firing after we signed up and I’m not really getting good vibes about him. Previous firings have had slow reduction cools (less oxygen, pulls out more reds and flashing, deeper color variation, more matte) but all of a sudden he’s saying he wants to crash-cool the kiln (after holding at peak temp you partially open the kiln and crash the temp down for smoother shinier surfaces but far less flashing and color depth) which is not what i had in mind for ANY of the work I made for this firing. Might keep my big sculpture guy out if he insists on crash cooling bc that’s not at all what i wanted for him. He might not be fired for a year at this point but that might just have to be the case.

*edit for clarification: our new resident is encouraged to lead firings to his style and taste, but he is wanting to alter firings we have already paid for before his employment without any kind of discussion on changes.