Chawan and Raku Cup Workshop – 2nd Edition
16 Oct. 2020
Cerdeira Home For Creativity, Lousã
We started from the ancestral technique of the ball to make a set of Chawan tea cups (Japanese cups) followed by thinning with a rudimentary wooden tool to give them their shape.
Looking for the relationship between the object and the hand, we explore the balance of form and dimension in a rhythmic cadence of time like a pulse. We propose the construction of a memory about knowing how to do, the expression that each one can transmit to matter, each moment of contemplation, the reunion with oneself in a cup of tea.
The highlight of this workshop is always the Raku firing!
We will decorate our set of cups of tea with glazes and ceramic dyes and then submit them to the action of fire in the Raku kiln, for about 30 minutes. We can enjoy the incandescent pieces when they come out of the kiln and we are surprised by the effects produced by this process.