Wheel thrown stoneware sake cup with a high foot and glaze detail on the bottom. Glazed only inside with an icy craquelé and reduction fired to cone 11 in a gas kiln. 

6159

sake cup

The work moves from raw material through an intimate trajectory that ends with firing. Regardless of material, every object requires  physical and mental  presence. Your complete devotion. It requires your instinct to balance opposites. Each movement forms a shape. Your  body literally writes itself into the shape, and has the potential to reflect your inner being. 

You take your tools out to dig in the earth until you find the right piece with which to grapple. Once found, you begin working the raw mass. You build a relationship with your material; wet it, knead it, let it dry, wait, make it pliable. An abstract idea starts to become a continuous, patient hand movement until some form arises. The clay must remain both soft yet stable, a tricky balance to achieve.

Or you work with porcelain, the “white gold” of materials.  Porcelain is capricious and difficult to work, like a fragile mass that often chooses to evade. You must first make it your own, to win it over with your hands until it absorbs your movement, joins in, and takes shape. The rarity of such a material demands constant, critical decision making until the final step of firing. 



With both hands

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A one of a kind serving bowl with a beautiful copper glaze on the inside. A dirty pink with unique green hues left by the atmosphere of the reduction firing in a gas kiln to cone 11. Diamond polished on the outside for a very soft touch. 

6092

serving bowl

Reduction fired serving bowl. Wheel thrown with stoneware and fired to cone 11 in a gas kiln. Inside it is glazed with a delicate matt grey and on the outside covered in a semi transparent copper green. 

6098 

one-off

Genuine materials. Singular objects. 
Personally developed glazes. 

Studio Seefried is located in Kassel at Schillerstrasse 40
The showroom is open every Monday and Thursday from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m


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