As I continue to go through old images, here is
another blast from the past, a trio of pouring vessels. I have enjoyed working
with both vitrifying slips and engobes over the years and continue to do so
right through the present while the one surface that I use the most is
the ishime (stone) surface. I am constantly trying new things to see where the
texture and surface works and where it doesn't on various clays, from cone 6 to
9 and in both oxidation and reduction.
More than a few years back I went through a phase of making groups of
smaller pots, teapots and pouring vessels with primal, elementary incised and
inlaid designs of which the illustrated trio is an example. Loosely based on found
stones, the designs were incised to best articulate the small forms and to give
them an ancient, archeological style presence. The bodies were first thrown and
then carefully beaten to their current form, with both thrown spout and handles
were applied. The decoration around the pots was incised once the clay have
gotten quite firm using a sharpened bamboo knife. The surface was applied, a
liner glaze used and then fired to about cone 9. Entitled, THE THREE WISEGUYS,
this trio was accepted into a juried exhibition and collected by Ceramics
Monthly for their permanent collection.
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