“I was working, preoccupied, and deeply shocked by the death of my younger brother and I found this shape evolving in a completely unexpected way. The pot was almost completed when I simply held my hands at the top and pushed down, reaching for a point in the universe, without thinking at all. So, you see, design transcends thought, evolving from the hands and the heart together. This is essence, purity, nothing added ...” An account by the Japanese potter, Shigeo Shiga, of this pot, illustrated in “Shiga the Potter,” reviewed today.
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Press, 23 April 1983, Page 18
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91“I was working, preoccupied, and deeply shocked by the death of my younger brother and I found this shape evolving in a completely unexpected way. The pot was almost completed when I simply held my hands at the top and pushed down, reaching for a point in the universe, without thinking at all. So, you see, design transcends thought, evolving from the hands and the heart together. This is essence, purity, nothing added ...” An account by the Japanese potter, Shigeo Shiga, of this pot, illustrated in “Shiga the Potter,” reviewed today. Press, 23 April 1983, Page 18
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