Matt Bowl
Originally Mitsuo produced installation work,
often using wet clay slip and simple shapes such as boxes or cubes.
But now he has been challenging himself with three
dimensional hand-built vessel forms that have great structural strength that
will last for many generations. They are
entitled “Universal Thought-Bushtsu-ko”, based upon the fundamental philosophy
of the Square, Circle and Triangle to which all shapes in nature can be reduced
according to eastern or Zen thinking.
The tattooing pattern is produced by carefully
incising the paddled, leather-hard piece, inlaying coloured slip, which is then
scraped back so that only the fine lines are left behind. This time-consuming laborious process is
meditative. He listens to Buddhist chants whilst he works so that the Zen world
enters his mind and manifests itself in his work, often sub-consciously.
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