things i love thursday: tetsuya ishida

women workers

Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, Chicago and Northwest Railway Company. Clinton, Iowa, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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making print.

i've been missing printmaking like mad and this photo is pretty badass! i definitely want to do this when i go back home sometime.

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today i went to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts with my friend connor. we traveled through the asian arts and spent a lot of time looking at the ceramics collection. here is a handful that i found inspiring.

 

The decoration was apparently achieved by affixing a leaf to the interior of the bowl 

before immersing it in the iron-rich slurry used to create the dark brown glaze 

used at Chi-chou. In the heat of the kiln, the natural chemicals in the leaf react 

with the glaze, rendering it nearly transparent.

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& this guy is my hero.

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