Denzer, Kiko

Kiko Denzer, an artist and builder, creates beautiful wood-fired ovens using the most widely available building material: dirt. He lives in the Oregon coast range, where he is a practitioner of earthen art and building, and has been building earthen ovens since 1994. He wrote Build Your Own Earth Oven, 3rd Edition: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves (2007) and Dig Your Hands in the Dirt: A Manual For Making Art Out Of Earth (2005).