I cannot really describe how it felt to see this, but what we had put in there the day before were three sculptures, one of which was a ring by Mariana Botte in year 13:
Needless to say, Mariana was heartbroken, and so was the whole staff who watched her spend weeks working on the details on this piece. Today, early in the morning I found her and convinced her to work on a new piece, not necessarily the same, but hopefully as interesting. Mariana made a huge effort to overcome her disappointment and a new piece is indeed being created. I hope I can share an image of it intact after firing it at half term.
Luckily there are some stunning photographs if this ring. These things happen but we are never really prepared. Another piece in the kiln was a sculpted guitar by one of our year 11 students, the second version of a previously exploded guitar... Today we carved a third version.
Whatever happens...we do not give up!
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