Friday, December 23, 2022
GRAND PURPOSE
Looking a bit like a
battlefield of both competing and complimentary textures and hues of color,
this Oribe chawan is evidence of modernity in a tradition that has proliferated
chadogu for nearly five centuries. This Oribe chawan was made by Tsukamoto
Haruhiko and is the embodiment of a new spirit within the Mino tradition where
the old and new collide to create new surfaces, forms, styles and firing
techniques to add to a long standing tradition. Though many of the features may
appear traditional from form and playful exterior, the way in which textures,
slips and throwing and tooling are employed, there is a distinct freshness to
much of Tsukamoto's work, there is both animation and abstraction worked into
the clay which springboards off the playful intent of the earliest Oribe ware.
I think what I normally bring away from after a Tsukamoto Haruhiko encounter is
a sense of being visually and texturally amused and though they are designed
and made for use and ceremony both, harnassing both exuberence and solemnity in
a three dimensional form is likely their grandest purpose.
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