Rufi

Rufi works clay in Santa María Atzompa, near Oaxaca City, a town of potters with long practice in burnished and fired natural clay. These pieces are wide, low plates in natural clay, burnished and partly smoked, then fired in a traditional kiln. The surface is a pale cream-buff with drifts of black and grey smoke marks, from a light scatter to a dense cloud gathered at one edge. One plate is double-sided and works either way up, as a flat dish or a raised stand.