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The glazed object has been known for over 7,000 years. Still alluring, it's still what lures people into ceramics, eye candy. Practical uses with glass like properties, useful for storage, but it also shows the incredible transformation. Alchemy in flow, from dusty white powders to the incredible colour palette of the ceramics world. Mesmerising colour palette using glaze and minerals. The same minerals are being used in these pretty glazes that are also being used in a dizzying array of applications, and this widely goes unnoticed. Along with the mining for these minerals. The awareness of the worlds most contentiously mined minerals. Cobalt, copper, lithium , nickel, titanium, there is no ethical sourced mining, it's all brutally obtained. Bodies exchanged for ores. Physical representation . 

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The glazed object has been known for over 7,000 years. Still alluring, it's still what lures people into ceramics, eye candy. Practical uses with glass like properties, useful for storage, but it also shows the incredible transformation. Alchemy in flow, from dusty white powders to the incredible colour palette of the ceramics world. Mesmerising colour palette using glaze and minerals. The same minerals are being used in these pretty glazes that are also being used in a dizzying array of applications, and this widely goes unnoticed. Along with the mining for these minerals. The awareness of the worlds most contentiously mined minerals. Cobalt, copper, lithium , nickel, titanium, there is no ethical sourced mining, it's all brutally obtained. Bodies exchanged for ores. Physical representation . 

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