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RE ENTRY is a collection of imagined sky rockets from other planets materialised on Planet Earth. The work is hand-built from clay, biscuit-fired, then Raku-glazed and fired to 1,000 degrees centigrade. The intense elemental Raku process involves lifting the red hot pieces from the kiln, plunging them into sawdust, and finally submerging them in cold water; it echoes the narrative.

Molten matter, smoke, flames, steam. Burnt blistered rockets. Glinting, metallic, space-probes, battered, dark and dangerous. Gleaming spaceships and sputniks. Each piece with its own mysterious story. All arrived from unknown places ...

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Morag MacInnes