Anneke Borren, gourd vase, anagama fired, 2013. Height 32 cm. A.B.: 'By the time I was in my sixties, the Wellington Potters Association had built their 'Japanese anagama tunnel kiln', in the Horokiwi hills, and the challenge of 'making' pots to be fired in a sustained group effort, for over 100 hours with wood firing, was inspiring. The kiln can hold 350 pots of various sizes. I consider my anagama fired pots to be amongst the best I have made