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Johnny Ortiz
SMALL-SCALE DINNER PROJECT october 2017
Johnny Ortiz runs a small scale dinner project in Northern New Mexico based around exploring the reflection of time and place through endemic plants, clays, and natural materials. Carrying on the tradition of bringing people together through food.
Made from wild micaceous clay comprised of sub-equal proportions of rose quartz, kaolinite, and mica with lesser amounts of pink felspar, dug by Johnny Ortiz in the mountains he inhabits.
Primitive fired using strictly red cedar from the same mountains the clay was dug.
Cured with elk marrow and beeswax.
*Products vary
Measures roughly at
Standard - 1/2“ H x 4" W x 4" D
and
Small - 1/4“ H x 3" W x 3" D