Portland Brick

Unfired native brick clay on the left, fired on the right
Drawing the alphabet in clay so that we can then have a font to type set each phrase in Photoshop
The second brick in a phrase that reads, "On this spot, in 1942, Tony played his first game of craps. He was five years old." This is a freshly stamped brick, just popped out of the wooden mold.
Molly and Chase bag up clay mid-winter at Watershed, after the addition of grog to the native brick clay. Grog is ground up fired clay that helps reduce shrinkage and warping.
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Portland Brick is a collaborative public art project taking place in the India Street neighborhood of Portland, Maine. My collaborator, Elise Pepple, has collected past, present, and future memories from the neighborhood and I am drawing, stamping and fabricating bricks made from clay from my land in Portland. To find out more about Portland brick, please visit our website, www.portlandbrick.org.