Illustrated is another teabowl form that had a rich black
slip poured over a white slip in a somewhat controlled, yet chaotic manner. The
bowl was then glazed in my medieval green glaze and as it is sometimes prone to
do, there surface has a tortoiseshell style appearance. I wish I could control
this anomaly, but it seems to happen by pure happenstance. As with the previous
Inkblot bowl, this one was thrown and then manipulated, just a bit ovoid and
the foot was cut with a bamboo knife to better accompany the form and lip. This
style of bowl owes its origin to older Raku archetypical forms known such as
tsutsu-gata and gokezoke-gata and though hand thrown, the body of the bowl was
also pinched to get to the form I was after.
"I think I think; therefore I think I am." Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913)
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