Bamboo

My love of bamboo is decades old. The rare tortoise-shell bamboo (Phylostachys edulis heterocycla) - the way it appears to struggle upward and onward - is most intriguing to me, These pieces are created by throwing a hollow donut form, slicing sections of it, and then reassembling. Many shown here are soda-fired or wood-soda fired, or wood-fired reduction cooled in the East Creek anagama, Willamina , Oregon.