Saturday, June 2, 2007

Taking the Mountain to Mao

In Jingdezhen, the Porcelain capital of the world. Even the traffic lights are Oriental Blue and White
Stuff is made in sections and joined bone dry.
I hate photographs with people in them but this is me being a matchbox. The tall pieces behind me have seperate necks like the shape of the smaller one which are joined after firing.

We are staying in the Pottery Workshop ( not the big pot factory in the pix though) and Richard and I are very keen to come here next year to make an exhibition to freight back home. The city is full of small backstreet family businesses. Just arounnd the corner is a Revolutionary Ceramics Factory.


And over the alley from where we sleep, is this gem of a workshop.

The Mao-maker
Too many Maos and too small a suitcase,
Jxxx