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Euan The Potter: Make or Break

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12288;　　　　　　　　　　　　Born in Australia,　 Made in Japan. Saturday, 12 July 2014. I reach out and touch Sean's wavy hair. He looks at me and smiles, then asks me what is wrong? Yes, it has been a tiring few days. Months. Years. As I have written the moon has traversed haif the sky. The children have come outside to kiss me goodnight, each in turn, telling me they love me, each asking me if I an OK? I reassure them, hug them, and send them off to bed. Peter van den Oever. 13 July 2014 at 03:08. Love those last...

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Euan The Potter: Mashiko Mingei

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12288;　　　　　　　　　　　　Born in Australia,　 Made in Japan. Friday, 20 March 2015. As I descend from the mountains the signs of spring become clearer, and by the time I reach Shibukawa the plums are in full blossom. Fields are being ploughed and crops sewn. The sun is bringing new life back to the land. The sun is setting as I arrive home with a half tonne of clay in the back of the truck. Today is the equinox, tomorrow ther will be less darkness in the world as it turns inexorably onward, and on Monday I b...

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Euan The Potter: December 2012

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12288;　　　　　　　　　　　　Born in Australia,　 Made in Japan. Monday, 24 December 2012. The garden and fields outside the windows are a study in black and white, as I light. The wood stove in the early morning gloom. These last few days, since the end of the exhibition in Utsunomiya, have been spent preparing fire wood for winter and installing the large, cast iron, slow combustion stove that we have finally brought here from Mashiko. There will be roast dinner and steamed pudding for Christmas tomorrow! Tonight,...

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Euan The Potter: March 2015

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12288;　　　　　　　　　　　　Born in Australia,　 Made in Japan. Friday, 20 March 2015. As I descend from the mountains the signs of spring become clearer, and by the time I reach Shibukawa the plums are in full blossom. Fields are being ploughed and crops sewn. The sun is bringing new life back to the land. The sun is setting as I arrive home with a half tonne of clay in the back of the truck. Today is the equinox, tomorrow ther will be less darkness in the world as it turns inexorably onward, and on Monday I b...

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Euan The Potter: June 2014

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12288;　　　　　　　　　　　　Born in Australia,　 Made in Japan. Thursday, 26 June 2014. To every thing there is a season. And a time to every purpose.June was called "Minazuki" (水無月) in the old Japanese calendar, the "month without water", not because it did not rain, but because it never stopped. It is the month of "tsuyu" (梅雨), the wet season, and during this period it was not necessary for the farmers to irrigate the rice paddies, so perhaps "month of no watering" would be a better interpretation?

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Euan The Potter: August 2012

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12288;　　　　　　　　　　　　Born in Australia,　 Made in Japan. Tuesday, 28 August 2012. NHK World, the international branch of the Japanese National Broadcasting Commission, recently spent four and a half days filming the first firing in my new kiln. Part of the "BEGIN Japanology". Programs "Japanophiles" series, the 30 minute documentary goes to air globally on Thursday the 30th of August. It will be broadcast on NHK BS1 at 2:00pm Japan time, as well as six broadcasts at four hour intervals on NHK WORLD online.

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Euan The Potter: Through the Looking Glass

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12288;　　　　　　　　　　　　Born in Australia,　 Made in Japan. Thursday, 2 April 2015. Through the Looking Glass. Sorry, son." I respond, "I wasn't really looking at you, you just happened to be in my line of sight. I was actually looking at that essay over there on the future horizon, trying to work out what it says.". Ah, yes." He nods sagely, with all the wisdom of his fifteen years, "Common phenomenon, I do it all the time.". I suppose it would be impossible for somebody in Japan to be guest editor? And so it ...

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Euan The Potter: August 2013

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12288;　　　　　　　　　　　　Born in Australia,　 Made in Japan. Sunday, 11 August 2013. Listen again. One evening at the close,. Of Ramazan, ere the better moon arose. In that old Potter's Shop I stood alone. With the clay Population round in Rows. And, strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot. Some could articulate, while others not:. And suddenly one more impatient cried-. Who is the Potter, Pray, and who the pot? Omar Khayyam, "Kuza Nama", Book of Pots, 12th Century). When we look back over the days and weeks and...

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Euan The Potter: July 2013

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12288;　　　　　　　　　　　　Born in Australia,　 Made in Japan. Tuesday, 2 July 2013. The sun is a pale smudge in the overcast sky, like a dusty light globe beyond a shoji screen. Mist shrouds the mountains, sometimes turning to light rain, occasionally to a torrent. It is Tsuyu. Last winter was long, cold and snowy. I discovered that trying to make pots in the Minakami winter was a challenge that I was not equal to. With. This axe, however, is still in it's original condition, and it worked hard to bring us throug...