Mudblood Builds

Here is the cob sculpture I made for ! I really appreciate they gave me to try something new out. To move my work in a different direction, one that is more play-based, more trippy.
It was great to talk to folks throughout the weekend about natural building with a living demonstration of the beauty and detail that earthwork can entail. And it felt good to see folks leaving offerings and burning incense on the altar spaces incorporated into the sculptural end. Once the bench dries and we oiled it it became of resting point between stages. Yay.
It felt apropos to be situated next to the .dome and in the network space. Together we held a sweet and soft place amongst the swirling crowds and pumping bass. I cherished all the love and curiosity I received for doing this installation, and for helping me finish it out before and during the weekend: I wish I had had more time to lead some people in the cob mixing process, but this was the first go around and there are more to come. I feel like I’ve really found an avenue, a mode of mud building that speaks to the core of my relationship with clay. I’ve always felt like more of an artist than a builder, and a I’m overjoyed that accepted my proposal. It was a great weekend, a great week. I’m looking forward to next year. For now, I rest.

thank you for letting me come and do my mud magic with all the faeries and gnomes!! it was a marvelous weekend. till next year!

for the love of mud

This summer come learn how to build 3 different types of at Wanosh Forest Gardens!
One stove a week for 3 weeks starting with a mini-mass heater J-Tube style in a 10’x12’ cob studio. Followed by a 8” Batchbox and heated bench in a 30’ yurt, and finally a modified Batchbox as the heat source for a sauna (built in a previous workshop).
This month-long rocket stove intensive is appropriate for beginners and those looking to sharpen their knowledge and skills. Specifically designed for those who want to take all three courses, which build on each other, and finish fully prepared to build a rocket stove of any kind on their own.
In addition to the August rocket stove intensive, Wanosh is offering a handful of juicy workshops from March to September. Other natural building intensives including a sauna build, a round pole timber-framing course, and a plasters workshop with Michael Smith and Athena Steen of the Canelo Project. Mushroom propagation, co-wilding retreats, fire regeneration weekends, and a PDC with Penny Livingston. Check these workshops out in detail at www.wanosh.org and use the code “viva” for 5% off any of the offerings. And if you want to take the full rocket stove intensive there is an additional discount.
Great opportunity to learn useful skills from great teachers!
Shoot me any questions you have.
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Meet Wubbsy. Wubbsy likes to cook, and also likes to care. Wubbsy is non-binary, often hot headed, and solid as a rock. Everyone loves Wub, but sometimes it feels transactional. Luckily Wubbsy has a lot of more-than-human friends who like to hangout on the daily. Plus, Wubbsy loves getting baked by the sun. A century’s saturation of sun seeping all the way through their thick skin, a sensation that makes them feel just like a steamed dumpling. But more than anything Wubbsy likes to wobble. And wobble they will, eventually back into the ground. Back with the stones and back to the stars, where clearly the wobble is never far.

Oven from the back.