Raina Lee uses the kinds of volcanic glazes you often see on mid-century ceramics, but not in the way you’ve seen them — inspired by science fiction and fantasy, she employs unconventional low-fire techniques such as horsehair raku and saggar firing to create super-intense colors and otherworldly textures on the surfaces of her pieces. Case in point: her new large-scale Acid Camo and Calix vessels, which combine bright neon oranges, chartreuses, pinks, and purples with glossy beaded crackle glaze, and which she calls “relics from a day-glo jungle.”

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Photos by Lindsey Kusterman