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Raku By Olaf Ted Juve

Olaf Ted Juve

"I wake up excited, wondering what this day holds in store, anxious to see what beautiful shapes and forms will be stacked around my feet by sunset." After thirty years as a potter, the quiet, unassuming Ted Juve still speaks about clay with a reverence akin to worship. Whether he is working with classic stoneware forms or focusing on the more ancient Oriental Raku techniques, the results are always exquisite. Ted often employs surface scratching with designs inspired by the spiritual and natural worlds. Many of the images are reflections of the local landscape.

Raku is a unique ceramic firing process. Glaze formulas often contain a lot of copper. A Raku piece is brought to approximately 1800F to 2000 degrees in a short period of time during which it is possible to watch the glaze mature. At that time, the piece is carefully removed, with long tongs, and placed in a trash can of leaves sawdust and paper which ignite by the heat of the piece. The lid is then placed on the can that is left to smolder causing a loss of oxygen in the chamber which affects the copper in the glaze. The result is a wide range of colors on the surface of the piece. No two pieces are alike. The making of Raku ware was initiated by Chojiro, the first generation of the Raku family, during the Momoyama period (1573-1615). At this time three-coloured glazed pottery (san cai) based on technology from the Fujian region of China was produced in and around Kyoto. Chojiro is thought to have been familiar with such techniques. A written record confirms that Ameya, Chojiro's father, originally from China, is thought to have been the person who introduced the techniques of three-coloured glazed pottery from China, although none of his works has survived to prove this. These Japanese san cai wares were not, however, called Raku ware and it was only after Chojiro had become acquainted with the tea master Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591) and had started making tea bowls for the tea ceremony (chanoyu) that Raku ware came into being. It could be said that the origin of Raku ware lay in the making of a single tea bowl for the tea ceremony.

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