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Artist Residency/World Wood Fire Festival, Kanayama, aomori, japan, 2005

Posted by Reyaz at Tuesday, September 09, 2008 | Tuesday, September 9, 2008

2005, I was invited to participate in the World Wood Fire Festival and for a residency program at Kanayama, Aomori, Japan. Japan was an amazing place to visit as a potter, I saw thousands of pots in just a few months and visited many pottery cities/sites, including Jomon. I also met wonderful potters during my stay at Kanayama, where we fired Anagama, Noborigama, Sueiki (a traditional korean kiln), Bury Box and Olsen's Dome Kiln.


Stoneware, fired in Bury Box at cone 10-11


Porcelain, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln at cone 10-11


Porcelain, fired at Olsen's Dome Kiln at cone 10-11


Fresh from the kiln - stoneware and porcelain


Stoneware, fired in Sueiki Kiln at cone 10-11


Stoneware, fired in Bury Box Kiln


Stoneware, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Porcelain, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Porcelain, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Porcelain, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Porcelain, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Stoneware, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln

Stoneware, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Porcelain, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Porcelain, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Stoneware, first fired in Sueiki and then in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Stoneware with Porcelain dots, fired in Sueiki and Olsen's Dome Kiln


Stoneware, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln


Stoneware, fired in Olsen's Dome Kiln

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I was born in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Went to Varanasi in 1994 to study ceramic design at Banaras Hindu University. My practice deals with forms derived from architecture. From the architecture of the place where I grew up to the architecture I come across while traveling in different parts of the world. My works explore different qualities observed in the rural and urban landscape and manipulate them to create forms which relate to one another. I investigate these forms in an abstract manner and manipulate them extensively, leading to a new form of its own. It is important for the forms to relate to one another, to create an environment, and to establish a relationship and a visible contrast between each other, thus encouraging the viewer to take a closer look and investigate further.