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.

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.