There will have to be about an extra hour to half hour over-
lap between shifts as well. Maureen has the schedule and
is waiting to sign you up. Please check your calendar and
call her to commit your time now. While we would prefer
people to sign up fer a shift team and work daily we know
some of you can't and we would be grateful if you would
sign up for the number of shifts that you can. Please call
today. 245-4867.

KILN LIMIT, CALL FOR WORKS TO BE FIRED: As you
know the kiln will fire up to 800 pots depending on size and
we are still somewhat in limbo about what to expect.
Please let us know as s00n as possible how may pieces
and what size pieces, you are intending to bring for firing
and when you are intending to bring them. We intend to
start loading on September 23rd so we need to know now.
call Maureen or Les at 245-4867.

KILN LOADING: Yukio will need 4 helpers to load the kiln
between the 23rd and October 1st. He advises that pieces
get moved and repositioned several times before the kiln is
ready to be closed.

FIRING FEES: Firing fees are $10.00 per cubic foot of
space. When calculating your works cubic footage please
add 1 inch to each dimension to allow for the extra space it
will occupy.

So WIDTH + 1" X HEIGHT + 1" X DEPTH + 1° = cubic
feet.

FIRING AND CLAY BODY INFORMATION: Further to the
last newsletter, any high fire clay is suitable to use in the
kiln. Cone 8 and cone 11 clay bodies should both mature,
Yukio advises that the kiln reaches about cone 2 tempera-
tures bul maintains that over a number of days thus matur-

. QUOTABLE QUOTES:

The market does not have principles, nor does it have
preferences: it accepts all works, all styles. It ts not a
question of imposing its will. The market does not have
a will: itis a blind process, whose essence is the
circulation of objects that price makes homogencous.
As a function of the concept behind it, the market
automatically supresses all meaning; what defines
creative works ts not what they say but how much they
cost, By being circulated...works.,.are transformed mto
nonsignifying objects, The canceling out of the will to
be meaningful makes the artist a meaningless being.”

Octavio Paz, “Price and Meaning” in Essays on
Mexican Aut, p. 294.

ing the higher cone bodies and glazes, Please mark the
base of your work with the cone range of your clay to
help Yukio decide where to place it.

GLAZING, ON SITE: Any high fire glaze from cone &
to 10 can be tried bearing the above information in mind,
3 or 4 glazes are being prepared and will be available on
site on a 1st come first serve basis. We ask others out
there to consider mixing @ batch of glaze and bringing it
for communal use a5 above. If you can do this please
let Les know at 245-4867, To take advantage of the on
site glaze, you must bring your work to the site behween
Seplember 15 and 22nd, we will not be doing the glazing
for you, Les can provide further information on this. To
glaze or not to glaze is a decision that you must make of
course.

GLAZING, IN YOUR STUDIO: PRE GLAZING TIPS:

If you are bringing or sending your works to the site al-
ready glazed please be aware that we can nol be re-
sponsible for the way they are received or for handing
problems, ‘Your work will be handled carefully of course.
Potters who have used the Arizona Tozan and the wood
kilns in Oregon and Califomia suggest that you glaze
your work after it has been bisque fired and then re fire it
to bisque temperatures. This sets the glaze and allows
the work to handled without fear of smudging or chip-
ping. It is standard procedure for transporting to the
large wood fired kilns and it works well, Whatever
method you decide on please note the glaze cone limit
on the base as well as the clays limit.

BILLETS NEEDED: All of you in the Nanaimo area who
can spare a bedroom or couch should contact Maureen
at 245-4867, We need billets for the firing team volun-
teers from out of town, we also need billets for 29 friends
of Yukio's who will be coming for the kiln opening cere-
mony.

SUMMARY:

a: Be at the meeting on September 8, 1995 at 11:00
a.m.

b: Get your brick money and names in.

c: Sign up for firing tears and other jobs.

d: Deliver or send your works to be fired by September
15th to 17th. Tell us the size and number of works you
would like to fire now!

é: Ensure the cone limit of both clay and glaze are
marked on base,

Ff. Bring your firing fee of $10:00 per cubic foot and don't
forget to add an inch to each dimension in your calcula-
fon,

g: Finish all glazing by September 23rd.

h: Help toad the kiln September 23rd to October ist.

i; Sign up on a firing team and help fire the kiln be-
tween October 181 and 7th.

j: Kiln opening celebration on October 14th

k: Don't forget we are asking everyone to donate one of
their fired works to a sale that will be used to give ‘Yukio
an honorarium