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Karina Creates

Process

How it actually gets made

Engineering habits die hard. I test, I fail, I write down what the kiln did, and I do it again. Here's the shape of it.

01

Look for a long time

Before anything else I photograph, sit with, and measure the space or the material. Most of the decisions get made here, before a brush is involved.

02

Test small, fail cheap

Panel studies, glass test tiles, glaze chips. Twenty years of research engineering taught me that a failed experiment on a two-inch tile is free and a failed wall is not.

03

Commit at scale

Then it's just labor — chalk, lift, brush, kiln schedule, repeat. This is the slow part, and it's my favorite part.

04

Let it leave

A finished piece belongs to whoever lives with it. I hand it over, and then I go find out what it looks like in their light.

Commissions

Walls, windows, gifts, memorials. If you have a space and a feeling but no plan yet, that's a normal place to start.

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