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Why am I not surprised?
Aug. 6th, 2008 11:23 amYesterday I went to the retinologist for a follow-up exam. (Everything still good so far.)
As I walked out, I guess he was feeling chatty; he showed me a picture of a porcelain jar on his website, then clicked on a link and showed the same jar in darkness UV light -- and part of it glowed.
I told him I had a friend who experimented with porcelain glazes named Jon Singer. "Oh yes!" he said. "I saw an article about glow-in-the-dark-glazes that he wrote. That's where I got the idea to use manganese in the glaze."
His name is Kirk Morgan, and he's been working with crystals in glazes (the kind that melt and spread when the piece is fired). The only photo I found on the Web was this one, which gives a great picture of the crystal, but not much of the rest of the piece.
As I walked out, I guess he was feeling chatty; he showed me a picture of a porcelain jar on his website, then clicked on a link and showed the same jar in darkness UV light -- and part of it glowed.
I told him I had a friend who experimented with porcelain glazes named Jon Singer. "Oh yes!" he said. "I saw an article about glow-in-the-dark-glazes that he wrote. That's where I got the idea to use manganese in the glaze."
His name is Kirk Morgan, and he's been working with crystals in glazes (the kind that melt and spread when the piece is fired). The only photo I found on the Web was this one, which gives a great picture of the crystal, but not much of the rest of the piece.
