LATE AFTERNOON

Some while back I put up a short video of one of my Oribe katakuchi in use with four Oribe mini-wan bourbon cups. Though not restricted to the use of bourbon, here are the same four cups just hanging about in the late afternoon sunlight to give a sense of the texture and surfaces of each piece. The combination of the sandy small batch clays, the gentle faceting opening up the surface of the pieces together with the multi-glazed, Kuro-Oribe style glaze makes for a rather interesting piece in the hand whether you are using it for sake, bourbon or any other litany of liquids.       

Though this Hamada Shoji quote may be apocryphal, I find it rather engaging, even playful; “Oribe is not a collection of forms, but a way of being”.