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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 16/12/2025

About 5" in diameter. Matcha would be whisked in the bowl. Search chawan for all sorts of examples and chanoyu for more context re: Japanese Tea Ceremony

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 16/12/2025

Faceting is in the ALT, probably why it matched. The bowl is carved to add seven faces. Those faces are textured, which obscures the faces somewhat, but they are there.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 31/07/2025

Mino style bowl using 100% unprocessed Cameron clay from North Carolina, and a simple shino-like glaze. Woodfired @starworksnc.bsky.social #sado #chanoyu #茶碗 #茶の湯 #茶道 #woodfired pottery #woodfiredceramics #noborigamafired #shino #shinoglaze

Front of teabowl with crawling glaze and finger marks.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 14/07/2025

Test piece from the last woodfire. On display at "The Dark Show" July 19 - August 23. www.starworksnc.org/starworks-ev... Firing a piece 10x its size in two weeks. Time at Starworks is passing fast. #ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #void #emptiness #thespacebetween #woodfiredceramics #starworksnc

Front right view of sculpture. Measures 12" tall. Results were not at all what I expected, but really interesting nonetheless.

Front left view of sculpture. Work in progress is about ten times the overall volume of this piece.

Detail of inside surface. Cracking and peeling of the applied slip was not intended but gives a really nice effect.

Detail view of inside surface. Surprising variety in colors ranging from greens to purples. No glaz was applied, this is just wood ash.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 07/05/2025

For your consideration. Three of these will be submitted to the Kansas City Clay Guild Teabowl National. Help me select the three. #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #tbn2025 #teabowlnational2025 #茶碗 #茶の湯

Grid of nine chawan from which I'll select three for submission to the 2025 Teabowl National.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 05/04/2025

It's pretty wild. Lots of things to look at. Kiln gods had fun with this one.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 05/04/2025

Raku-style bowl. "Dark Side of the Moon". Lots of mixed feelings about this one. #tea #teaceremony #chawan #matchawan #rakuchawan #raku #sadō #chanoyu #楽 #茶碗 #茶の湯

Side of bowl showing a red stripe where the surface transitions from smooth to cratered.

Front of teabowl showing the moon-like cratering in the glaze. I had to do a lot of cleanup with a grinder to make the surface smooth enough to use.

Back of chawan with mottled glossy black glaze. Gorgeous variation in this surface.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 27/03/2025

I saw it! Beautiful work. Great to see in person.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 26/03/2025

I'm working the NCECA merch table all week, swing by and say hi!

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 26/03/2025

Cool to see your work at NCECA! Beautiful!

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 23/03/2025

Teabowl. Black clay with wood ash nuka. Hand formed thick and carved. Thinking about which bowls I want to submit to the KC Clay Guild Teabowl National and this style seems right as it feels like my own. Interested in your thoughts. #tea #matcha #teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #teaceremony #chanoyu #茶の湯

Front of teabowl with prominent glaze drip.

The foot was carved to be slightly concave, an intentional reference to some of the famous Korean Ido bowls.

There are a few glaze defects that will have to be addressed with lacquer and gold, but the end result will be worth the effort.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 04/03/2025

Thanks for the advice on the drying. Looking forward to trying it and the porcelain.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 03/03/2025

Curious to hear how it throws. Looks like good trimming textures. I'll be at Starworks June - August and looking forward to using this clay.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 03/03/2025

I taught a Raku-style teabowl workshop these last two weekends. The result of a lot of clay testing, glaze formulation and learning the best way to fire our kiln. Much to my relief, the work paid off and each of the students' bowls came out great. #raku #kuroraku #rakujawan #chawan #teaceremony #茶碗

Front of chawan. Two characteristics of Raku bowls I love are the "waist " and the slightly turned-in rim. The rim isn't actually turned in much, it is just left thick and beveled. Leaving the rim thick helps with balance also.

Interior of the chawan. Really good citrus skin texture on this one.

Foot of the chawan. A spiral in the kodai is traditional, but I opted for a backwards yin-yang. The choice was unconscious, but appropriate. I formed this bowl while experiencing a huge disruption to my personal life.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 28/02/2025

Yeah, definitely learned a lot. Grateful he is willing to share so much of his knowledge and techniques.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 27/02/2025

Kurinuki demo piece for my intermediate handbuilding class. If it resembles Satake or Matsuzaki, you wouldn't be wrong; I took some workshops with them. Fun glaze combo gives something Oribe-ish. More rabbit holes to explore. #kurinuki #handbuiltpottery #abstract #sculpture #pottersofbluesky

Right quarter view of sculpture. The glaze combo I used -- a fake blue ash and iron saturate -- gives a really interesting contemporary Oribe look.

Front view of sculpture. I really like the soft organic folding near the base.

Left quarter view of sculpture. Texture created by adding a lot of silica and intentionally wedging air into the clay.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 26/02/2025

Great choices. So many great Hagi works there.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 26/02/2025

Also a beautiful bowl. But how?

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 26/02/2025

I'm super new to this and have no idea what I'm doing. But great to make a connection with fellow potter interested in flowers!

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 25/02/2025

Amazing. Hehe, yeah it's a good one. At some point, we'll all have to share tea with it!

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 24/02/2025

Intermission. I've been taking Ikenobo classes, so of course I made a container. #ikenobo #ikebana #shoka #flowerarranging #pottersofbluesky

Ikenobo Shoka style arrangement with fasciated willow and tulips in a black clay container with iron saturated glaze.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 22/02/2025

Bowl-like-thing. Black clay thrown thick and carved. Tenmoku liner. Wood-salt fired. Looks like a chunk of basalt. Struggling to call this a teabowl because it would shred a chakin in a nanosecond, but as a sculptural piece, it works well. #tea #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #teaceremony #茶碗 #茶の湯

Bowl with very rough exterior. Thrown thick, allowed to dry to leather hard, then cut with a razor and the clay torn away.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 22/02/2025

Yeah, I end up replying to my post if I want to include additional content, but the user experience isn't an aesthetic one. Played with @pinksky.app and curious to see how @flashes.blue works

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 22/02/2025

I'm in both worlds right now. Too many friends there and exposure is higher. I'm hoping (and encouraging) folks to move here, but it will take some time.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 21/02/2025

Simple hand-formed teabowl with a shino-Iike glaze oversaturated with iron and bone ash. Iron is amazing for its range of colors and effects. #tea #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #茶碗

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 21/02/2025

Amazing! Looks atmospheric!

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 20/02/2025

Another textured teabowl. Same body, glaze and firing as the previous, but different location in the kiln. Instead of imparting a glossy sheen, the salt flashes the pot in a salmon pink. #tea #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky

Front of chawan showing carved texture and pink flashing.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 20/02/2025

Lovely. How are you firing?

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 19/02/2025

Woodfired tenmoku-style bowl. At the time, I thought this a decent facsimile of the originals, but now it feels a bit heavy handed. That rim is so darn hard to get right. #tea #teabowl #chawan #tenmoku #teaceremony #woodfired #pottersofbluesky

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 18/02/2025

Would his replacement be any better tho?

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 18/02/2025

Dojimari-gata (waist type) teabowl. Woodfired porcelaneous stoneware with an unglazed exterior. Beautiful range of colors from the wood ash and flame shadows. #teabowl #chawan well beyond #20pots #teaceremony #woodfiredpottery

Front of chawan showing blue-grey ash deposits and salmon colored flashing.

Foot of chawan showing wadding marks and flame shadows.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 17/02/2025

Slip-textured and woodfired teabowl with crawling shino interior. See ALT text for more info! #chawan #teabowl #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #woodfired #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky

Front of teabowl showing salmon-pink flashing and blue, grey and green ash deposits.

Interior of chawan showing chadamari and crawling shino glaze. It took me a really long time to be OK with crawling interiors.

Foot of chawan, minimally carved. I use a "pinch and throw" technique on a banding wheel to form this style of bowl, then apply two layers of sanded, contrasting slips to create the texture.

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Chad Corbin @mudmeditations.com · 17/02/2025

There's just too much to explore in this medium. I think that's why I love it.

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