ola lewczyk

 







I.objects⊹ candles
⊹ pottery


II. projects
⊹ sundials
⊹ i broke the glass and it became a mirror
⊹ savvala oven
⊹ light sediment xii
⊹ atlas-axis vertebrate
⊹ rota fortunae
⊹ korowaj dla marzanny i dziewanny
⊹ 3 steps towards klepisko
⊹ 148 bricks
⊹ experimental archeology
⊹ backyard brick coop


III. shop⊹ enter my internet targ <3
⊹ stockists













about
@olalewczyk
olewczyk@gmail.com










I make or collect most things that I need, the clay, materials, tools.
depending on what’s at hand the clay pieces are thrown, hand built or shaped in
earth moulds

















































firing-
small glow, fire outside the chamber gradually growing as we feed the kiln with 
wood, matching its drops and rises. stoking every couple of minutes over two-four days and nights we reach 1250-1300 degrees. pathways of flames and ash leave permanent traces on the clay. heat burning the face, sore muscles, squinting eyes. firings have been done in olsen and groundhog kilns or in self-built wood-fired experimental ceramic kilns.














































⊹ firing Nic Collins’ groundhog kiln (4 days)



























⊹ firing Sabine Nemet’s soda olsen kiln (2 days)













































































glazes-
potassium, calcium, magnesium extracted by a plant from the ground during 
its life, encapsulated in its ashes. when these minerals bind with the elements 
in the clay body, they melt into a glaze.

foraged nettle, dandelion, pine cones, grass, birch that grows around my family 
house in poland that they used over winter, ash from the previous firings, are all
basis for developing my glazes.































































⊹ building of a phoenix kiln to make the ash