DOUBLE TAKE

Quite a while back I made a video of a Oribe kushime style teabowl that I had made and posted it up on Youtube. This was not a video slideshow but rather a video of the teabowl in motion on a rather cheap turntable and as I looked at it this weekend I was rather crushed at how poorly it actually captured the real nature of the bowl. In the video the bowl doesn't really want to stay in crisp focus for the majority of the duration and the color, texture and surface are washed out and not terribly interesting. I am not sure when I turned away from making this type of video but I could see where this presentation would be the nail in the coffin.

This past weekend as I was cleaning up and putting things away I actually realized that I still had this teabowl, loosely, very loosely based on a Momoyama piece I had handled, sitting up on a dusty shelf and decided to rephotograph the piece in a way that would bring out the character and characteristics of the piece. In this photo the use of Oribe and Iron show up quite nicely with a wide array of color and texture accentuated by the kushime combing and areas where the infused glazes are using the channels as diagonal speedways adding movement to the teabowl. I know it would seem that I already covered this bowl in its video debut but I thought since it was just hanging about that it deserved a double take, a shot at putting its best foot forward and hopefully this time I have succeeded in that task.