Wood Fired Textured Tokkuri with Shino #03

DETAILS This bottle was thrown on a pottery wheel, altered by hand, and made using a custom high-fire clay body. It features a shino glaze that was applied and wiped away, and was wood fired for 5 days in an anagama style kiln. The darker areas on the bottle represent how the flame flowed in relation to the piece and where the wood ash was deposited.   This is my interpretation of what is known as a tokkuri.  A type of sake bottle originating from Japan that was named most likely as an onomatopoeia based on the noise the liquid makes as it is poured out. The inclusions within the clay bodies I use vary between locally found materials, and select counter-top pieces that I process before wedging into the clay. By adding materials that are non-uniform in size, each session of making is a sort of collaborative effort between my intentions and clay itself. With no two pieces ever being the same, each moment of creating leads to new discoveries. The process of wood firing is one full of chan