The Sacrificial Type

Day 17 of Advent

Reading in Exodus about the Passover and the great care they were to take of the lamb before its sacrifice while I am kiln sitting and making minuscule changes to gas and air to achieve tremendous changes in a glaze; turning it from silken baby blue to a thick and rich oxblood red.  The blood and its color!  I have often wondered what Christ’s blood type was?  The children of Israel didn’t need the lamb they needed its blood, the blood of a baby.  That is Advent, that Christ was Human and inside This Human Baby was real blood with a real type, The Sacrificial Type.  

This is the glaze I am working for in the kiln now.  It has a small amount of
iron in it that with the right amount of fire and oxygen will turn the
sea blue to Oxblood Red.  This piece shows what happens when my
adjustments were just slightly off so that only half the vessel was changed.  Look at
the transitional color, that halo between the blood and the sea.