This Chawan, or matcha bowl is 10x10x8cm in sizwe and weighs 225g. It is stoneware that was fired in a oxygen reduced environment in wood ash and soda first. All the textures on the bowl come from the firing, there is no additional glaze applied. The work is done in a way how people over 10 thousand years ago would have probablyt also created it.
I learned how to make the actual object of a bowl from Kyoshitsu Sasaki, a Raku Master in Kyoto. The firing technique is something I slowly discovered myself.
The object connects to all my other work, as it is created from earth particles and then exposed to various unpredictable and predictable amounts of heat and light and other particles.
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