TIME TRAVEL

I was looking at a pot recently and as I was enthralled with the exterior, I noticed this singular, solitary green drip and on a whim stuck my phone upside down into the pot and took this photo, of course I asked permission first. The result is this perfect bidoro droplet, an emerald created by ash and the intense heat inside an anagama perhaps 30 years ago but still as fresh, wet and gravity defying as the day it came out of the kiln. I was reminded about looking for glimpses of beauty where ever they may be and those simple moments of pleasure as they sometimes crash in to you like this chance encounter with simplest of details that can immediately transport you to another time and place. Maybe Einstein was wrong about time travel and the proof is in this diminutive time machine. 

Looking just like dripping ice, surrounded by still pristine snow, ash built up around the shoulders and mouth of this Shino mizusashi and in just this one spot, the ash made its way to the edge of the lip where it is now sentenced to hang for whatever percentage of eternity this ceramic vessel may have. If you look carefully at the right side of the photo you can see the slight channel, stained with a hint of brown ash where the ash made its way to the underside of the lip and dripped into the interior during the height of the firing also creating a large, deep green pool on the floor of the interior but this one detail was my focus though there are always more details to share down the line including a slideshow video at some point. There are way too many details, pictures and projects but fingers crossed, I should get to some of them at some place in time and maybe this time machine will lend a hand. 

"Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?" Clara Schumann