Friday, December 16, 2022
FULLNESS
Glazed and
wood fired, what really draws me to this Tamba tokkuri is the fullness of the
piece, the captured volume that creates a taunt form, ready to burst or perhaps
just be used spilling all of its contents. Made to be used, the surface of this
tokkuri is a delightful collage of creamy, running glaze over an ash glaze with
areas of iron while punctuated with stone and feldspar emerging from the clay
to add further accents the pot. At its core this is a simple tokkuri,
skillfully thrown with a purposeful base and mouth capping the structure,
centuries in the designing though clearly of a more modern age this is a pot
full of movement an in the moment. In all respects Nishibata Tadashi has taken
what would seem to be an everyday pot and stretched its use, definition and
aesthetics into an amalgamation of old and new, simple and complex and most
assuredly the familiar into the distinctive vision of a potter building on the
Tamba tradition who creating uncommon works along the way.
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