Word of the Day
Conflate (v., cunn-FLAYT)
To bring together or mix, like you'd do with a bunch of ingredients, or to fail to distinguish between two things, like you might do between baking powder and baking soda.
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Tomoro Mizuno's ceramic art
Tomoro Mizuno makes ceramics with some interesting designs. All of them have a pattern, and the way he achieves that pattern can seem kind of magical:
In the video above, Mizuno is cutting a stack of clay that he's prepared, revealing the pattern. The roots of this go back a while:
“It takes about eight hours to make the pattern alone,” he says. Tomoro makes nerikomi pottery, a centuries-old technique that consists of coloring white clay with different oxides and minerals (nerikomi means “kneading” in Japanese) and carefully laying strips into patterns that appear when you slice the clay slab laterally. “My father and grandfather also made nerikomi pottery, so I’ve seen it since I was young,” says Tomoro, who studied pottery and woodworking in school and gradually moved to work full time from his studio in Seto, Japan.
You can see the finished ceramic bowls and plates as well as more videos of the process at Tomoro's Instagram.
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