Me-98.6, Fire-2400

So, we finished the the up-firing yesterday afternoon. We reached cone 10 in the front and back with, in retrospect, relative ease. Then we spent about 12 hours down-firing--a process of reduction cooling to bring out particular affects in the ware that is extremely amazing to watch. I got to see fire act like a liquid inside the firebox. Think about how mesmerizing staring at a regular campfire is and then multiply it by 100 and add a hallucinogenic drug of your choice. It's awesome. Now it's all about cooling, so we play the waiting game. I'll probably post again when we take things out of the kiln.