Posbank — Pavilion
In the makingNow: On the wheel
Made by Martijn
Price to follow
Save to PinterestHand-thrown mug with the relief of the plateau around the pavilion on the Posbank.
- Dishwasher safe
- Dimensions: 8 cm high · 7 cm wide · 300 ml
Specifications
- Made by
- Martijn
- Height
- 8 cm
- Width
- 7 cm
- Capacity
- 300 ml
Care
Dishwasher safe.
Every piece is made and glazed by hand; small differences in colour and shape are part of it. Wash with a soft sponge and avoid abrasive cleaners. Don't take the piece from very cold to very hot in one go.
The story of this piece
On the wheel (current step)
31 October
Finishing (not yet)
Bisque fired (not yet)
Glazed, in the kiln (not yet)
Available (not yet)
Clay has a mind of its own: whether this piece survives the kiln and how the glaze turns out, we only know once it's finished.
About this piece
At the top of the Posbank, around the pavilion, the landscape is calm: broad, rounded shapes at 77 to 98 metres above NAP. These shapes did not come from my head. They come from the Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland, in which the whole of the Netherlands has been measured with laser scans.
From a strip 1.2 kilometres long and 360 metres wide, I made contour lines every 5 metres. I carve the bottom two layers by hand out of the wall, and build up the top three with slabs of clay 1 millimetre thick. Because 1 millimetre here equals 5 metres, the relief is almost true to scale.
The photo with the map shows exactly which stretch of the Posbank runs around this mug.
