Though
we knew the weather was going to turn today, there was a brief moment of bright
sun and 70 degree temperatures this afternoon and in that window, I was able to
take this rather attractive detail shot of this gosu and tessha iron
interaction. In normal incandescent light though still a rather nice piece and
surface many of these subtle and not so subtle details fail to register to the
eye where the sun has amplified the surface and wrung each and every variable
out of the various glazes to the very fullest. This particular henko was made
by Kawai Kanjiro student, Kawai Hisashi and is both typical of his surfaces and
classic in his creation of forms following in the master's footsteps. I am
particularly enthralled by the boundaries between the tessha and gosu and how
they interact along with the areas where the glazes have started to run down
the piece creating exotic stripes surrounded by vivid iron crystals across the
surface. There is a cosmic system on the surface of this pot and honestly at
4.37 light years away, quite a bit closer than Alpha Centauri and much easier to see.
(*For
clarification sake I should mention that I studied very basic latin back in grade school
so admittedly I don't necessarily get things quite right and hope the meaning
is not lost in translation. Paenitet.)
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