Untitled by Hashimoto Tomonari, 2021

12.5h x 12.5w x 12d in

After forming and sculpting the shape, it was bisque fired, then glazed and fired again at a relatively low temperature (Between 1000 and 1100 degrees, like Raku ware). Then Hashimoto built a brick oven around the piece and brought the temperature up to 500 degrees, and adds millet or rice husk, which carbonizes the surface, creating incredible colors and random patterns leaving the viewer with a feeling like rusted or heated metal, 2021.