Tinaja

Pit fired on full moon 2.16.22

INTENTION ↓

Can be used either for form or function. Tinaja is a word for a basin or in New Mexico a vessel to collect and drink water with.   

DETAILS ↓

The earth used is wild micaceous clay hand dug and processed by Johnny Ortiz, from the same land that his ancestors ( of Taos Pueblo ) have dug for thousands of years in the Sangre de Cristo mountains near Taos, NM.

MATERIAL ↓

Largely decomposed silica, mica, rose quartz and sand stone.

TERRAIN ↓

Sangre de cristo mountains, Taos NM    

METHOD ↓

Pit fired with mountain red cedar, sanded with sandstone, burnished with a river stone, and cured with elk marrow all from the same terrain.   

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