A place for pause – raku pottery bowl

Description

A beautiful raku-fired bowl, with added original poetry.

The poetry on this piece reads:

This is not a space for applause. It is a place for pause in which despite the noise we might make, we seek that certain kind silence, which is anything but empty.

The bowl has a beautifully organic shape and rich glazes. It is 8cm deep and 27cm diameter. The words sweep across the bowl with soft textures around.

How we make our elemental pots

Raku (meaning ‘easy’ in Japanese!) is a process by which a pot is heated quickly to around 1000 degrees using a gas burner, then it is placed in a reduction bin (a sealed metal bin containing combustible material.) By controlling the amount of oxygen reaching the glazes, the potter can produce a range of different colours  (although much of this is also down to chance!)

‘Seatree elemental’ refers to a range of ceramics using rough clays and alternative firing techniques, such as pit firing or raku firing. All pieces are hand built and unique. Although they utilise original poetry – just like other seatree work – you may have to work harder to read it, as we are happy to let the words be absorbed into the piece itself. The poems chosen for seatree elemental are often more challenging in nature, as this work has emerged as a way for us to explore our relationship to all that is broken and all that is beautiful in this world shadowed by climate injustice. Just like our other work, you will see a colour spectrum inspired by the wild western fringe of Scotland.

This bowl is soft in shape and colour.