I
mentioned last week that in an effort to work out this faceting idea that I had
also made several other pots including bowls and vase forms. Illustrated is a
medium size bowl that was faceted rather directly with a standing ridge
dividing the form in half horizontally that had just come off the wheel head.
One of the things that I like about this technique is that it creates a number
of hard lines and areas that will break and/ or trap glaze making for a richer
surface using my temmoku, Oribe or iron yellow letting the throwing and
faceting being the only decoration that is necessary. Like other pieces before
this one, I will facet the foot, finishing it in a hexagonal or octagonal shape
with the interior tooled into a normal foot-ring, this helps tie the bowl and
foot together. It may be obvious that this serving bowl is not quite as
deformed or altered as the teabowl and water jar were, I thought a more straight
forward form would make for a slightly easier to use pot while keeping the
overall sensibilty that I was after intact in the form in other words, just the
smallest nod to conservatisms which has never
hurt anyone, has it?
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