HBD

Over the last several weeks we have had mostly overcast skies with intermittent direct and unencumbered sunlight which has led me to fall back on my old HBD (Hollywood Back Drop) photos for something other than white backgrounds. In this case a well fired Shigaraki chaire by Minagawa Takashi is accompanied by a hazy moon from earlier this year. The surface of the chaire is wet and clearly shows the rather quick and random fence design incised around most of the form where the natural ash does the rest of the heavy lifting. This piece is on the large side for a chaire but I must admit it is much lighter than I would have ever expected leading me to ask, how did such a thin pot stand up to the ferocity of a such a heavy firing?