Lee Love on mon 24 nov 03
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From: "Pamela Watkins"
> Haven't heard much from Lee Love these days........Give a post or such,
> Lee....Interested in your doings. Or post off line and I'll visit that
>cyberdiary of yours.......neat.
Thank you Pamela! I'm mostly a mud hermit here. Jean did made me drive
us to Kasama yesterday, to the Ibaraki Ceramic museum yesterday, to see a
show of Momoyama era inspired pottery. I tell you, the modern
"rediscovered" Japanese Shinos are nothing like the traditional ones. I
like the old ones much better. The old shinos are much warmer and more
complicated. The new ones are usually too stark.
Been busy with a woodkiln firing. You can see some of the shigiraki
haicabari work (haicabari means fly ash glazed) here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/togeika/2003/11/24/
Right now, I am polishing shigiraki ware. A large tsubo (jar) is next,
then yunomi.
I learned working on my sensei's work, that the mat surfaces have a
coating of dull oxide on them. If you polish them, the color comes
through.
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Lee In Mashiko, Japan
http://Mashiko.org
Web Log (click on recent date):
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