FACETS FINITO

I just fired off the kiln and among the pots was the faceted tokkuri that I had up on my blog a while back. The finished piece came out pretty nice with a variegated surface created by the latest incarnation of an Oribe glaze I am working with but the highlights are around the shoulder and other horizontal cuts where the glaze collected. These particular areas have created deep, dark green pools of glass that in some respects, segment the form and establish areas that the eye darts to and with the changing angles and planes, the light plays off each surface differently. These tokkuri were enjoyable to make and made a good platform for a glaze that has quite a degree of potential with effects and textures that just keep adding to the lexicon of its possibilities.

"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."  Pedro Calderon de la Barca