Long Dishes

I made this Long Dish and others like it based on a piece I came across by Kitaoji Rosanjin (pictured below). Rosanjin’s was a vase modeled after a stalk of bamboo. My long dishes are a response to the tumbling and opening of a thrown form. The pieces are a cylinder, thrown in a vertical orientation orientation, which is then laid down on it’s side and cut open.

What interests me in making these is even though the process seems straight-forward, the details of the final form is only revealed at the end of the process. The thickness of the walls, and the character of the opening are actually determined as I am forming the vessel on the wheel. And because of that, I can’t see that ‘line’ of lip of the opening until the very end after I make the cut.

This process of making these lead to other explorations of containing by tipping the dish and changing the shape from straight sides to curved sides.