Jim Lux Pottery

After an initial firing in an electric kiln, my pots are packed into metal cans with combinations of charcoal, pine straw, wood shavings and newspaper surrounding them. Then, I light the can on fire and it burns as quickly as the wind allows. Random patterns of carbon deposits cover the surface of the pots and remain as evidence of the firing process. The process - that's what I like. And it startles me sometimes that something of me comes through in that process.
		"I remember making mud pies (as most kids do) and the pleasure that came from turning a glob of nothing into "something," a thick (albeit unappetizing) pancake-looking pie. I was surprised when it was pointed out to me that it wasn't really a pie, edible, but just mud. And it probably was "just mud." But the idea, the challenge of turning mud into "something" stuck with me. Making a pot from a lump of clay might not be difficult for me now, but making a really good pot continues to be my challenge. I hope that I come close to meeting that challenge every now and then -- it's a utopian journey."

After a pit firing at Linwood's family farm in Oxford, NC.

Jim Lux and Paul Hrusovsky -- New Works

A show at Craven Allen Gallery in Durham NC

Summer 1999

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