ok so i think i know what im doing i just have to tie it in more with the luzon rusun jars/ tea containers/ vessels... read pauls blog again and hes written more on the clay vessels luzon was famous for thousands of years ago- so famous. they are an 'ugly' not fully fired volcanic ash (pinatubo) clay jar which is high in sulfur, making it excellent for storage of food items like tea leaves-- it was highly highly sought after by the japanese traders who their highest cheifs/rulers would really pay loads of gold for an authentic jar with matching documents of its age. its also because the jar/clay itself had properties/symbolized longevity (?) and healing (?) as well as being an excellent tea storage which seemed to believed to have enhanced the flavor of the tea (?)....
it was 'ugly' and people in euro (?), the west (?) kept calling it earthenware instead of celadon (?) -were surprized possibly to see a recent one go for a few hundred thousand pounds?.... the thing about the luzon jars is that they are 'ugly', overlooked, forgotten- like the history, the importance- and traded off to the highest bidder. this part bugs me and need to read into that.... but how they were so sought after and the chiefs of the islands wouldnt trade em at the time they were 'da shiznit'... eventually as thier reign fell, they traded em. so i wanted to make a piece that merges what im doing now (all dis trying to make the best cutest crafts) and that... the ugly forgotten highly prized clay jar. something that needs each other for support and is itself made up of 'nothing' 'raw materials' but combined they make something that is highly prized and valued but ends up being forgotten (say glasses- the crafts i make, end up in the sally ann), somethings lost in translation here and need to work on why it became useless... so im going to recreate a luzon jar out of beads. well, a glass to start. there it is pa dah need to do more reading.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
rusun glass project
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