künstlerische Referenzen

clay oven

 

fire

 The first form of burning dates back to the early Devonian, when life first colonized the continents. The second tracks the Anthropocene, when humanity changed its combustion habits and wrenched the Earth into a new order.

 

Fire unites ideal and material
alchemical origin / element
Beginning of the cultural history- robbery of the fire
World fire
ashes from which the bird phoenix rises
Fire consists of flames
colors of fire: red, white, yellow, blue

Fire indicates whether the work was good
cleans the shards from volatile components

clay: quartz, clay minerals, feldspar
transformation, decay, melting = metamorphosis

Wood most important fuel
Black fire

And where two raging fires meet together; They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

Flaschenofen / bottle oven (?)

England 19th century beginnging of industrialisation