
Broken Nerikomi Piece #26 Special Conversational Art (Big Bowl Series)
If you've been watching the series, you know that this beautiful broken piece of nerikomi pottery has very special meaning. We all experience brokenness at times. Sometimes we find ourselves in way too many pieces, despite our best efforts to make ourselves whole. Sometimes we just can't seem to fix what's wrong. And that's what these pieces are all about. Let me tell you how these came to be... I spent days and days trying to dial in a special new nerikomi pottery process that I came up with to make the most magnificent ringed bowls. And... I finally dialed it in! I made several of them successfully and I thought they'd be mega-stars, selling for a really nice price. These bowls would have sold for $2k-$3k each. But... I did something less than intelligent and they all developed big cracks. It was an overly emotional moment for me when I discovered what had happened. Instead of tossing them, I thought maybe many of you would like to own a piece of the broken pottery as conversatio