SQUARED OCTAGON

I would like to say I could take full credit for the idea behind this form but admittedly I did not invent the square nor the square pot and the faceting, mentori concept owes just a bit to my time working with Kohyama Yasuhisa. I have posted pictures of this bowl as greenware and as green ware, the fired kind so that the idea is easier to see as the glaze is both highly reflective and hides some of the details that I would like to be a bit more obvious. The first step was to throw and square up the bowl, the ink was used to divide the bowl into quarters though not of any geometric perfection. I then "bellied" out the center of each plane just a bit and then faceted each of planes into two sections creating something akin to a squared octagon. Instead of just pulling the wire, I used a slight sawing motion to create a bit of texture which is a trick learned from my time in Japan. Once the faceting was complete, I set about cutting the foot into a square with a deep spiral in the center after which the bowl was bisque and glazed in a Kuro-Oribe surface which was a bit difficult to photograph. I made a similar piece in my sandy porcelain that though bisque has not been glazed and fired yet, I am hoping that the details show up just a bit better due to the whiteness of the clay and we will see with a Friday firing planned.