COOL POOL

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