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Who is Joan Lederman?
Joan Lederman is an artist that lives and works in Woods Hole Massachusetts. Joan uses materials from all over the world in the creation of her beautiful pottery. Her material comes from an unusual source - Geologists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. These geologists collect mud from the ocean floor from all over the world. Joan uses it as glazes for her interesting pottery. The colors and patterns made by the sea mud glaze radiates like nerve cells or the branches of arteries and veins. The different types of mud all behave differently once they have been fired. Each glaze is unique. Joan inscribes each piece with the longitude, the latitude and the depth of the sea mud sample. You can see more beautiful pottery and learn more about her work by visiting her website www.thesoftearth.com You can read about her methods in her article in Ceramicstoday.com/ articles/oceansediment |