ANOTHER END OF DAY

Though I rarely work in really large series of pots, I am not that guy who sits down and throws 40 of the same thing, even in my smaller series of a dozen or so similar pieces it can get a bit trying as the eleventh piece comes along to decorate or carve. Illustrated is what I refer to as an end of day bowl and with this group there were actually two bowls that deviated from tried and true designs that I had planned on carving. This particular decoration is another variation on an old design that I refer to as "tree of life" blended together with my "intersection" design and I think it works well to articulate the shape and space of the medium sized terra cotta v-bowl. This may just seem like just another carved tebori design but after carving out ten of the same decoration even a small deviation is a most welcome to a potter who has the patience is measured in mirco-grams.