On a warm summer day, Adam Wiley, pottery instructor at Randolph Community College, is carefully moving a newly fired pot to a bucket filled with wood shavings and strips of newspaper. These ingredients are essential to a process called "Raku"; this creates interesting and unique colors through oxidation or reduction of oxygen, combined with elements of ferric oxide. When the pot is first placed in the bucket, the temperature of the kiln it just came from was approximately 1700 degrees Fahrenheit.
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