INTERLUDE

Though I am in the midst of back to back terra cotta cycles, I took a small block of time, a short mental interlude to throw a few stoneware pieces. Illustrated is a vase, about 11 or 12 inches tall and faceted using the technique I am working on. Along with this vase I threw a couple of tokkuri and a covered jar which will mostly be glazed in either Oribe or the saffron iron yellow. This vase had the foot cut in a hexagonal pattern and will be glazed in Oribe to best accentuate the faceted planes but also to collect on the bands and other horizontal areas that protrude just a bit which will create pools of very deep, dark green, an effect that I like very much. I have been enjoying working with this faceting technique as it leads to very direct and not necessarily predicatible result which to be quite honest can be a very good thing in the midst of throwing very predictable terra cotta.

A classical interlude;