BACK TO IT

Having taken the time to make a small teabowl based on the surface of Maximilian armor a short while back, the next day I decided to get right back to it and made a few more pieces utilizing that surface. Illustrated is a small covered box form with a B.C. or PROMETHEUS inspired finial that I have been working with. The box and surface have that certain Gothic appearance to my mind and should work quite well with  a variety of surface, the least of which are the Oribe variations that I constantly resort to. Though the carving looks a bit rough in the picture that has been addressed with a bit of light sanding so the sharp bits are at a minimum but the crisp lines and clay breaks are left intact. 

In my last post on this technique I mentioned that I had worked with this particular technique in the past which dates back to Cleveland but to be honest beyond that I am just not sure when it was employed. I know that I have been using the simpler fluting method for quite some time and as recently as a few months ago but I am just not sure if I used it in the past decade. That being said, I do seem to remember using this surface treatment under some vellum blue pots and that was definitely since moving back to NY State. I guess the point is that times just flies by but every now and again I like to reach back to older techniques or styles and get back to the basics and see where the ideas lead "as time goes by".