I was digging through images
at the request of a client and came across this photo of a bowl I made some
time back. The saffron neriage teabowl
was originally photographed using either a white or black background with a
tungsten light source with a tungsten correcting "filter" in the
digital camera and once I shut off the lights, the sun was beginning to set and
was streaming into the room, just enough to highlight the bowl and shed an
alternative perspective as to how the piece looks in various conditions. Though
it will be somewhat redundant for me to say so, it never ceases to amaze me how
a pot can look so different depending on the source or light or the placement
of the piece. I remember being at a fellow collectors home and seeing a modest
Tsujimura Shiro Iga pot on a bookshelf and then he pulled it down and placed it
in the middle of a small Chinese style table and it was an entirely
different piece with a greater sense of
commanding the space. I am not saying the various lighting makes my pots any
better, but with this type of atmosphere, it certainly doesn't hurt any.
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