Strata of lands, earthenwares, porcelains... modeled in the feline flexibility and thoughtlessness. Spirals of transparent energy crystallized by colored recycled glass joined by iron and lead threads.

“The image is the visual eye open to the Spirit, it becomes a reflection of the Interior ; microcosms & macrocosms, shadows & lights ... My research in this visual direction is where the alchemy ... the material metamorphoses, the alloy of the fire ... of the water ... of the air ... of the Earth ... of the metals is a never ending story ...”  Maru

Lunar Cat No.6 “THE NEST”

Sculpture Multicolor © 2010

Grog clay / Porcelain /Enamels / Recycled Glass

Fired at 800°C  / 1472°F degrees and smoked over a wood fire.

H 13 in - W 13.7 in - D 31.5 in

H 33 cm - L 35 cm - D 80 cm

This is a unique piece.

LUNAR CATS MOMENT SERIES...

Lunar Cat No.3 “PARADE”

Sculpture Multicolor © 2010

Grog clay / Porcelain / Enamels / Recycled Glass

Fired at 800°C  / 1472°F degrees and smoked over a wood fire.

H 18.5 in - W 15 in - D 39.4 in

H 47 cm - L 38 cm - D 100 cm

This is a unique piece.

Lunar Cat No.3 “PARADE”

Sculpture Multicolor © 2010

Grog clay / Enamels / Recycled Glass

Fired at 800°C  / 1472°F degrees and smoked over a wood fire.

H 18.5 in - W 15 in - D 39.4 in

H 47 cm - L 38 cm - D 100 cm

This is a unique piece.

Lunar Cat No.1 “WATCH OUT”

Sculpture Vertical Multicolor © 2010

Grog clay / Porcelain / Enamels / Recycled Glass

Baked at 800°C  / 1472°F degrees and smoked over a wood fire.

H 18.5 in - W 15 in - D 39.4 in

H 47 cm - L 38 cm - D 100 cm

This is a unique piece.

Lunar Cat No.2 “TOGETHER”

Sculpture Multicolor © 2010

Grog clay / Enamels / Recycled Glass

Fired at 800°C  / 1472°F degrees and smoked over a wood fire.

H 21.6 in - W 13.7 in - D 43.3 in

H 55 cm - L 35 cm - D 110 cm

This is a unique piece.

Lunar Cat Porcelain Series

Sculpture White © 2010

Porcelain fired at 1200°C / 2192°F

Small sizes

Those are a unique pieces.

MARU’S STATEMENT

Visual language composed with modules ... Pentagrams written in the space creating internal atmospheres, conducive to daydreaming, and external, such as trees of life under the magical lights of the sun and of the moon ... These pieces come in various sizes ranging from 67 cm x 40 cm and 200 cm x 80 cm … They live in freedom like musical notes ... Fields of alpine flowers … Enchanted forests ... Each artwork is composed of panels of twisted iron, bent in the shape of rods which are reversed and welded together … Glass pieces are then woven into an opened frame feathery forming a stained glass slightly suspended in its iron holder ...

Crafts and ecological ... they are made from recycled bottles …

Broken by thermal shock, recycled bottles then give life to glass tiles ... I make each artwork from the new pieces, carefully chosen, always looking for transparencies ... textures ... depths... in a perpetual discovery where the alliance of the fire is always unexpected and surprising ... to create atmospheres conducive to daydreaming ...

RECYCLED GLASS

STAINED GLASS

STAND STRUCTURE

GROG CLAY BASE STRUCTURE

Grog, also known as firesand and chamotte, is a ceramic raw material. It has high percentage of silica and alumina. It can be produced by firing selected fire clays to high temperature before grinding and screening to specific particle sizes. High grade fire clays can withstand temperatures of 1,775°C (3,227°F). Its melting point is approximately 1,780 °C (3,240 °F). Its water absorption is 7% maximum.

Grog is used in pottery and sculpture to add a gritty, rustic texture called "tooth"; it also reduces shrinkage and aids even drying. This prevents defects such as cracking, crow feet patterning, and lamination. The coarse particles open the green clay body to allow gases to escape. It also adds structural strength to hand-built and thrown pottery during shaping although it can diminish fired strength.

This sculpture has first been baked at 800 °C (1,472 °F), then exposed to wood smoking. The optimal conditions for smoke are low, smoldering temperatures between 570 and 750 °F (299 and 399 °C). This is the temperature of the burning wood itself, not of the smoking environment, which uses much lower temperatures.

In archaeological terminology, 'grog' is crushed fired pottery of any type that is added as a temper to unfired clay. Several pottery types from the European Bronze Age are typologised on the basis of their grog inclusions.

VITREOUS ENAMELS ON GROG CLAY BASE

Vitreous enamel, also porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C (1,382 and 1,562 °F). The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating on metal, and also glass or ceramics. The fired enameled ware is a fully laminated composite of glass and metal.  Enamel may be transparent or opaque when fired. Vitreous enamel has many excellent properties: it is smooth, hard, chemically resistant, durable, scratch resistant (5-6 on the Mohs scale), long-lasting color fastness, easy-to-clean, and cannot burn. Enamel is glass, not paint, so it does not fade with UV light.

Maru’s developed her technics while living in Limoges, enamel capital of France and a famous center of vitreous enamel production. Limoges became famous for champlevé enamels from the 12th century onwards, producing on a large scale, and then from the 15th century retained its lead by switching to painted enamel on flat metal plaques.

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