PLAY A BIT

For good or bad I have been playing with a number of thrown, altered and assembled forms and recently found myself with some "spare parts" so I decided to go ahead, play a bit and resurrect a form I hadn't made in some time, a shovel or spade pot, some of which I have made in the past were rather good size, this one, not so much. With a cut off ring of clay, a small slab or two and a couple of small cylinders I set about getting to work before the pieces ended up too dry to manipulate and pushed the larger ring and small cylinder oval, I cut the base of the oval and attached first the slab and then the pedestal which I also pierced with a square on opposing sides. last but not least I attached a ring lugs to either side and there you have it, a simple spade form ready to have incised decoration on either side. As is probably evident this didn't take much time to build and I have to think it was a better use of the time than the energy necessary to ultimately reclaim the too dry scrap. Not sure what I will do with this but if I can't figure it out there always is the fallback position of Oribe or the Kuro-Oribe, either may be just the right choice.