AZURE WAVES

Illustrated is a rather tall, elegant vessel covered over in varying hues of heki-yu glaze with areas of the clay having subtle and overt texture creating azure waves and evoking scenery from some far off and distant place. Made by Kimura Yoshiro this heki-yu vessel was thrown round and part of the upper neck and mouth were pushed into an oval cross section and the mouth was sculpted to complete the form. As Kimura's work matured his pieces become less decorated and more about purity of the form, in many respects they are a three dimensional homage to form and the line and volume become the central players in the narrative of his work. The combination of the deep, dark and the lighter blue brings a subtle sense of movement and verticality to the pot aiding in moving the pot from functional vase to sculptural vessel. I thought this was a perfect  image for a blue Monday bringing calm and reflective appreciation to the spirit.    

"Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones." Raoul Dufy