{"id":3591,"date":"2014-08-05T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2014-08-05T12:46:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:46:24","slug":"crystals-and-lack-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=3591","title":{"rendered":"Crystals and Lack of Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/christinemauersberger.com\/cmauers\/2014\/7\/16\/stitching-leaves-growing-crystals\" >Christine Mauerberger<\/a> blog regarding growing crystals on leaves. Got me to thinking about several pieces that I made a few years back. One of the pieces was really beautiful, but became annoyingly ugly. <\/p>\n<p>This is the original piece before salting. The piece is composed of fired stoneware, metal, and fiber.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/OfSaltOriginal.jpg\" alt=\"Original Piece\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n<p>Detail of the piece after being submerged in a solution of hot water and borax.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/OfSaltCrystals.jpg\" alt=\"Crystals\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n<p>And two details of the crystals on the piece today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/CrystalsIMG_1234.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Changes Detail 1\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/SaltChange.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Changes Detail 2\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n<p>Curious why the change so I googled it. Found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk\/~ucfbanf\/general\/crystal.htm\" >Andrew Dominic Fortes\u2019 Crystal Growing<\/a> page. It has some great information.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read a post on Christine Mauerberger blog regarding growing crystals on leaves. Got me to thinking about several pieces that I made a few years back. One of the pieces was really beautiful, but became annoyingly ugly. This is the original piece before salting. The piece is composed of fired stoneware, metal, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=3591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crystals and Lack of Control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-materials","category-observations","category-processes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}