ALL THAT JAZZ

So, I am rather sure that this will not be what everyone sees in this pot but when I first saw this Oribe vase, it reminded me of a scene of the Bob Fosse story, ALL THAT JAZZ. The posture and attitude of this hanaire by Sone Yoshiyuki has that vibe of confidence and surety wrapped up in a form casually thrown and then skillfully manipulated, marked and slightly beaten before it had lugs slapped to either side of the vase adding a bit of definition to the pot. As you can see the rough, almost torn throwing marks, caused likely by a piece of rough wood or a rib has filled with the Oribe glaze making for a real sense of rhythm circumnavigating the form while the area on the face that looks to have been pushed in just a bit with long vertical marks has a pale, amber hue contrasting rather poetically against the deep green. Though I suspect all of these considerations, marks and alterations happened in mere minutes, it is the practiced hand of years, even decades of work that make for the rather casual and spontaneous appearance that creates such a simple and often duplicated vessel. What I see in this vase is a vocabulary of the old tradition of Oribe, ushered in by Furuta Oribe intermingled with that modern touch which Sone Yoshiyuki has plied to the clay, glazing and firing of his highly individual work.