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Thursday, 25 April 2013

Dream and celadon bowl

Hello everyone. Last night I had a strange dream. I was in the meeting led by my former Japanese architect boss (I used to work as an interior designer in an architect's office in Tokyo). There were one of primary school classmates and two former colleagues in the room. I felt sick, so I told them that I would go home. I was in an elevator going down. There was a high school classmate who became graphic designer. She didn't seem to recognize me. But when I was about to get out, she said 'You don't look well.'  I walked around the vast building and found a white room with a girl lying in a simple steel bed, and there was another bed. I lay on the bed. Then I woke up with incredible thirst and fever. I don't need Freud for this one, do I? I just wanted to go to hospital!

We had a warm day today. It was warmer outside than inside. Pumpkin, our chicken, slept under the raspberry bushes (no leaves yet). Our dogs slept in a sunny spot on the lounge. I also took a peaceful nap this afternoon.

When I woke up, I had an email from a lovely lady in Singapore; a sculpture and a rabbit cup have arrived safely. What good news!

I have listed one celadon bowl in my shop today. This is from my latest reduction firing. The small bowl fired in March was so good that I have glazed a couple of pots with same celadon this time. Alas, only this was properly reduced; the other one was only half reduced, so it has to go to re-firing in June.

'Peppermint choco chips ice cream bowl' in my shop
 
It is 6 2/5 inches wide (16 cm), and  3 1/3 inches tall (8.6 cm). It is versatile. Mike threw this pot with coarse grey clay. We call it 'peppermint choco chips ice cream'. Instead of dipping the pot in the glaze, I brushed the glaze, so that brush marks could be seen.

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7 comments:

  1. Linda Starr25 April 2013 at 23:35

    Nothing better than choco chips and the heck with Freud.

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    1. Midori26 April 2013 at 11:23

      Hahaha. I like your short and definitive comment!: )

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  2. Mark Smalley29 April 2013 at 10:47

    I like the pure lines of your celadon bowl very much and the brushed glaze works very well. I make alot of pieces without footrings (feet..feetrings?), and glazing can be a headache if I don't want to leave fingermarks.

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    1. Midori29 April 2013 at 11:52

      Hello Mark. Thank you. This glaze brushing was the lucky result from experiments. : )

      Do you know Shinobu Hashimono? He glazes all over his stoneware vessels. He make numerous tiny cones to support his each work. After firing he grinds anything left by the cones. Quite obsessive! ; ) His website is http://tenstone.exblog.jp/

      Your guinomi would look great with finger marks, I imagine. I am a footring fetish!, so I make footring on everything except for vases. : )

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    2. Mark Smalley29 April 2013 at 13:57

      Yes, I know his work quite well, he is one of my friends on facebook. The cones are interesting, maybe I'll try it! :) I started doing something similar with clam shells..I put them on top of wadding and if ash glaze flows onto them they are easier to remove. Thank you..I do like leaving fingermarks on some pieces, but it doesn't work well with every glaze.

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  3. Willow29 April 2013 at 13:17

    And from Willow at the world renown" Peanut Gallery" ... that is exactly what self indulgent me would be eating in this lovely well made bowl ~ the most expensive and delicios Peppermint Choco chips Ice Cream ! ;)

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    1. Midori29 April 2013 at 14:20

      LOL! This bowl is a serving dish size for ice cream. You would be very full! ; )

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