VERTIGO III

Every now and again I find myself straying back to older ideas, sometimes it is just easy, some time comforting and at other times it is more about what can come out of the older design or technique that wasn't explored before. Though not a monumental leap this vertigo bowl was a slight departure from previous way that I had employed this technique and I think it has articulated the decoration and ideal on the interior of the piece to maximum effect. I like how the round border of the wall cuts off the angular spirally design creating the vertigo pattern and confines it as if it were trapped in the bowl. 

When I was inking out the design I decided early on to offset the center of the decoration to add a bit more interest to the piece and hope that I have succeeded to that end. The wall of the bowl is perhaps a couple of inches high with the pot sitting on a tall pedestal foot and glazed over in what was left of a rather old Oribe version by brushing on the glaze and adding a bit extra in the grooves to create a deeper green. In the end I only made a small group of five of these bowls, two small and three from about 3 pounds of clay all variations on the same thrown round theme. As it would seem it occurred to me after the fact that I should have made a couple of these bowls though squared to see what effect that would have on the way the pattern descends into the interior. I guess there is always another cycle and still a bit of this old glaze left to make it happen.