EXPRESSING CREATIVITY: clay, fiber, metal, ink, etc.

[Tai Shi]

Just great Onka, I lik it!
Gassho
Deep bows
sat/ lah
Tai Shi


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[Tai Shi]

EXPRESSING CREATIVITY: clay, fiber, metal, ink, etc.


Gassho
sat / lah
Tai Shi


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[Cooperix]

I was a professional potter in my 20's and still have a love of clay. These three bowls are some of my favorites. The large platter on the left is mine. It's made of white stoneware and glazed with a Chinese chun glaze, probably from the late 70s or early 80s. The two other bowls are not signed, so no idea the name of the two potters. But both gorgeous and beautifully thrown. I have a wonderful collection of bowls and with rare exceptions I know the potter's name. The Japanese rarely signed their ceramic pieces. A bow to humility and no-ego! In The Unknown Craftsman A Japanese Insight into Beauty, Soetsu Yanagi pays homage to this tradition. https://www.amazon.com/Craftsman-Jap...s%2C205&sr=8-1

Bowls and plates were my favorite objects to throw and now to enjoy...
I will continue to post some of the bowls from my collection.


bowls.jpg

Gassho
Anne

~lahst~

[Jishin]

Fantastic Anne.

Gassho, Jishin, __/stlah\__

[Meitou]

Anne, this is beautiful work. I also love bowls, plates, cups - but I find it very difficult to explain why one bowl speaks to me and another might not. It's not just tied up in shape, colour and glaze, but also in weight and feel, the experience of touching and holding, of cupping something in my hand. When I cup my hand over my cat's head I experience the same sensation as when I hold a favourite bowl, a sense of connection, pleasure, satisfaction, rightness, perhaps even suchness? Still struggling with the words, but do please post more of your collection.
Gassho
Meitou
sattoday lah

[Cooperix]

Thank you Meitou and Jishin!
My love of bowls has followed me throughout my artist's career. Besides clay, I have made them out of bee's wax (my favorite), turned steel (the heaviest), cast iron - (of course all non functional but part of larger pieces). They represent for me the feminine, a graceful container. And all the things you mention Meitou! I'll post some of the odd material bowls I've made.

Bows
Anne

~st~

[Risho]

very cool stuff Anne!

gassho

rish
-stlah

[Cooperix]

Thanks Risho!

I am attaching images from a more recent clay project (2018-2019). It has been many years since I'd worked with clay and about 3 years ago I started once again, but hand building rather than throwing. Thirty plus years ago, after I had attended a Zazen Weekend Retreat at Bodhi Manda Zen Center in Jemez Springs NM ( https://www.bmzc.org/ ) I was so taken by the 3 bowls we carried with us for our meals, wrapped in a cotton cloth and holding a pair of chopsticks, that I made that aesthetic part of my art practice off and on for all these years. They were titled '3 Red Bowl Series'. These pictured are nonfunctional as they are finished with bee's wax and pigment. The red circles leaning in front of the open box fit nicely as lids on the bowls inside the box.
3redbowls.jpgthree red bowls open.jpg
I know there is talent in our sangha, please share your favorite pieces by other artists or your own work. We are a gentle, appreciative audience.

Gassho
Anne

~lahst~

[Tai Shi]

All I can say is I couldn’t do it, wouldn’t try! Yes, takes skill of a real craftsperson! Thank you for showing real skill!
Gassho
sat / lah
Tai Shi


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[Kotei]

Anne,
I am sharing the love for bowls with you.
The functional ones are beautiful. Myself, I am drawn to the small Chinese ones, not so much the slightly larger Japanese. No wonder, enjoying tea the Chinese way.
The material and texture of the '3 Red Bowl Series' makes me want to smell and examine them closer. Fascinating.
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Tai Shi]

Can I share my latest photographs?



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[Kokuu]

Lovely photographs, Tai Shi! Nice to see flowers still in bloom at this time of the year.

I have sewed a couple of cushions from Japanese fabrics and stitching techniques that fall more into the craft category than art. Art I see as a more open-ended process guided by an emotion or feeling, whereas craft tends to follow a pattern but there can still be an emotion or feeling guiding how it develops.

Cushion one (and the kanji for Kokuu embroidered on the reverse: https://postimg.cc/jDFdyH0n)
Cushion two

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Tai Shi]

Beautiful cushions. Again nothin if not beautiful. I couldn’t do it. Stitchery, bead work, embroidery all lovely.
Gassho
sat not upon... lol
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[Seikan]

Some beautiful work being posted here by all! Thank you for sharing.

Kokuu, the more Rakusu sewing I do, the more intrigued I am by Sashiko. I may take a "stab" (bad pun intended) at that in the new year when we're on the other side of Ango/Jukai.

Gassho,
Rob

-stlah-


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[Tai Shi]

EXPRESSING CREATIVITY: clay, fiber, metal, ink, etc.

The flowers were a real
Find, and Marjorie purchased them to adorn the front of our house, actually 3, in planters on a cedar deck which she lovingly stained. She and I take pride, allowed by precepts? In the house we worked 26 years to own. Big chunk of our little family, our daughter is 31, left for collage when she was 18 also approves of my Zen.
Gassho
sat / lah
Tai Shi


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