IMPACT (II) REVISITED

I was searching through a thumb drive filled with pictures and ran past this photo of a large Shigaraki tsubo by Takahashi Shunsai and decided to post this up to fill in some of the blanks and give more of a perspective of what the other side of the tsubo looks like. The original post from 2021, entitled; IMPACT II shows off the dramatic face of the tsubo covered in running ash like a cosmic impact of molten ash collided with the surface. In contrast to the face, this photo clearly shows the underside of the pot where it was resting , one of the wad resists clearly visable and the ash running to the lowest point of the belly traversing an array of firing effects from the prolonged wood firing. In truth, I think both landscapes present a rather evocative narrative of the pot and firing and both contribute not only to the technical understanding of the process but also the aesthetic journey where potter, clay and fire converge like some grand chronicler of old.

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