Visual
depth and enticing clarity are clearly on display on this cool pool of comforting and
alluring azure blue as created by Heki-yu specialist Kimura Yoshiro. Whenever I
handle this piece, especially as the temperatures begin to climb I find myself
moving from light source to light source trying to pull out every nuance and
detail from the rich azure pool. Created as the glaze was made liquid by the
heat of the firing allowing the contents to build up and fashion a mystifying
gem as if created in the crucible of a dying sun or in this case a potter's
kiln. I believe I have posted this guinomi in a previous blog post and hate to
be redundant but this detail only recently captured while the piece was showing
off in the sunlight made for a clear example of what it is about Kimura
Yoshiro's works that is so intoxicating .Succinctly put there is a dramatic merger of simplicity and seduction in
this case in the form of a glaze which becomes all the more alluring the
thicker it becomes. Though intended for a specific function I can never bring
myself to obscure the pool with any contents, spirited or otherwise.
"Ringed
with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; he
watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls." From THE EAGLE by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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