Tinaja

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Pit fired on full moon 2.16.22 INTENTION ↓ Can be used either for form or function. Tinaja is a word for a basin or in New Mexico a vessel to collect and drink water with. DETAILS ↓ The earth used is wild micaceous clay hand dug and processed by Johnny Ortiz, from the same land that his ancestors ( of Taos Pueblo ) have dug for thousands of years in the Sangre de Cristo mountains near Taos, NM. MATERIAL ↓ Largely decomposed silica, mica, rose quartz and sand stone. TERRAIN ↓ Sangre de cristo mountains, Taos NM METHOD ↓ Pit fired with mountain red cedar, sanded with sandstone, burnished with a river stone, and cured with elk marrow all from the same terrain. LINKS ↓ → Care → Archives Show more