MACRO DETAIL

Illustrated is a detail shot using the macro feature on my camera of a chawan that has been around for a while. I decided to photograph the bottom of this piece after moving it to get to another pot and the way the light hit it made me think that a good photo would illuminate what the glaze surfaces really looks like. In this case the bowl was carved on the wheel head and then thrown to expand the surface and later glazed in my Oribe and iron wash. The glaze ran quite a bit and formed this vivid copper/iron flow that is high lighted with streaks of varying color and details within and if you look in to the Oribe glaze you can see random particles of copper also puncuating the surface. I must confess that for a surface that started as just another test with a date and number designation, I am pleased that with each firing the results and details always put on a show.