I liked the wire cut surface.  For a long time that was the process.  The largest variation was to do four slabs to make one pot or to use a double wire twisted which would leave a kind of corduroy pattern.  I favored a straight diagonal.

I don’t know how much this matters, but in all two-slab pots they are made up of the two halves of an original double-thick slab.  So the outsides of the finished pots started out on the inside.  They are both formed by the same wire.  When the wire is a stretched-out spring there is a real difference! That was to be my next investigation, as the work from 1983 will show.

 

Four-slab box 1979

Four-slab vase 1981