Large Wood Fired Vessel

This vessel reflects the elemental understanding of Chaleff’s mode of ceramic production, a structure roughly hewn and exhibiting the scars of its firing as imperative to the design and decoration. The distinct ash-glaze residue has been developed through a Japanese process of anagama wood-firing which the artist has championed and helped to revive in America over his career after studying in Japan across the 1970-80s, slowly increasing the scale and length of time under which the clay is fired to present remarkable combinations of surface detail.