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With formal schooling in both the logical sciences and the intuitive arts, Raku ceramics for me satisfies and challenges both aspects of my nature – control and spontaneity. Western Raku techniques draw me with their variety and serendipity. I want to create forms within a body of work that need to be Rakued, not just forms that can be. Form applied to glaze, not glaze applied to form. Forms that accentuate the Raku process and would be less without it. Forms that are an extension of the familiar – the vessel – toward the sculptural. An invitation to accept their function in an alternative way.
I want my pieces asymmetrical, off balance, raw edged, torn, and unstructurally cracked – to “look” hand built, from clay. A search for the spirit of eastern Raku’s origin in the tea ceremony’s idealism of the effortless form; a flawed perfection. In Japanese, ‘Shibumi’ – an effortless perfection.
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