March 2011
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February 2011
73 posts
no way, no love
one simpleclean line per letter a sweep of purity on a field of white
- Hannah Nichols
Q & A selection from Soetsu Yanagi’s “The Way of Craftsmanship”
Q. What is the special quality of beauty in crafts?
A. The special quality of beauty in crafts is that it is a beauty of intimacy. Since the articles are to be lived with every day, this quality of intimacy is a natural requirement. Such beauty establishes a world of grace and feeling. It is significant that...
It is the potter who moulds but it is the fire that confers color. The potter can only relegate the pigment to fire, and then give it air or allow it to suffocate.
- Yeon Shim Chung on Gauguin’s ceramic sculpture
