Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 002 ceramics for beginners and experienced makers

for beginners and experienced makers

Many of the photographs used to train the AI are on display in the upper floor

(This format is in fact also the proportions of the main panel of the Ghent altarpiece)

The work asks more questions than it answers

This unique Nerikomi Agate Ware was hand carved using the Kurinuki technique I learned from Kyoshitsu Sasaki

Smoke-Particle Photogram Drawing 002 ceramics for beginners and experienced makersEach piece begins as a watercolour drawing, then is exposed to rising smoke from a kerosene flame. The soot, or 300 year old particles, reaches the paper through a second, sacrificial drawing that has been cut out. This intermediary sheet is slowly destroyed in the process, leaving only its traces and shadows. Soot and combustion particles settle directly onto the watercolour and grow a smoky drawing over the colour beneath, a kind of particle