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About Painted with Fire:
Speaking about her work, Ruseau says: "Unsophisticated and unhurried is the way I play with clay. The hand-building techniques I employ, coil and pinch, are primitive and intimate. There is a private conversation between myself and the clay when I create this way. Using vessels as my canvas, I delve into the concepts of movement, balance and weight while exploring sensual forms inspired by buds, blossoms, butts, and bellies. These shapes will bend and guide the journey of the fire's flame from the firebox to the flue in the wood-burning kiln. The fine clay slip that covers my vessels captures and chronicles the fire's dance around each pot. Marked by ash deposits, carbon trapping, orange peel textures, and vibrant flashes of color, the interplay between naked clay and the kiln’s atmosphere narrates the unique journey of each vessel. In the end, my vessels become storytellers, recounting their creation and survival in the fire’s flames." |
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About Kit Ruseau:
Kit has been wrestling mud for over 30 years. Her love affair with clay began in a Prince George’s Community College ceramics class. The intimate and uncomplicated process of coiling and pinching pots was appealing and the perfect complement to her day job as an engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center. Over the years she’s attended many workshops in hand building and atmospheric firing techniques, both nationally and internationally. She currently works as a studio technician and teacher at District Clay Center and enjoys volunteering and fostering dogs and cats for various animal rescue organizations. |
