If you were to stare into the mouth of a fire-breathing dragon, what would you see? Perhaps you might see something like this:

This is the interior of the Thow Kwang Dragon Kiln, where pottery is fired. Jerome visits the kiln and writes about the pottery activities there:

Besides the sale of imported pottery pieces, the potters’ activities have become a main focus of the kiln which was last used commercially in the late 1990s. For the potters, working at the kiln offers not just an escape from the confines of walled air-conditioned studios, but also a chance to fire their works in a one of two surviving wood fired kilns in Singapore, a process that adds an element of randomness in the way pottery pieces are finished – a natural glaze is obtained on the otherwise unglazed pieces from ash and salt (which is thrown into the kiln) that is deposited on the windward side of the pottery pieces. Since a pottery workshop started on the premises in 2001, the size of the pottery community working at the pottery jungle has steadily grown and at least ten potters spend most of their weekends there.

Read his full post here.