Ceramic waterparty!

The next photos are my sculptures of the parrot with his "consience" on his shoulder and Ibiza under his claws and the transforming lady.
Both of them have withstand the first burn, also called the Bisque-firing greatly!
They are in the garden to be soaked in water,
this strange event we have to do because our supplier (our faithfull supplier for over 15 years) has send us some clay with plaster of some kind in it. And plaster, for some chemical reason after being fired and moisted expands....
This moistening can go very slowly... can take a few years even,
but thén the power of this expansion is so great that it ´ll break thru ceramic AND glaze, thus leaving a crater sometimes big as a centimeter in dimension....
This is ALWAYS ugly in a sculpture, for its very easy to be spotted, but it´s a DISASTER when this occurs in delicate parts such as the face!
Can you imagine what it does to a gaze when one eye is particly "blind". ....!!!!
So as a prevention, we soak the sculptures artificially before glazing.

Yeah, prehistoric measures, but practical.

On the bottom photo 4 lamps, 2 of them in the series of the gargouilles to make a nice outdoor set.