Digital BW, The Print

Another incredibly black object is the kind of bowl that ultimate
Japanese craftsmen make mostly FROM layers of black lacquer...hundreds
of layers built up, one after the other..I saw a film by a Japanese
govt agency that showed a man designated as "Living Treasure" working
on one of these bowls...he worked in the dark with only one light, a
bare light bulb with a globe full of water hanging between it and the
object being built...a glaring, focused, uneven specular light on a
very black object. Just the craftsman sitting on his mat, the object,
his lacquer and his brush and that light arrangement.



 I saw an unusual looking black painted
> car and asked what was going on and someone said it was ³lacquered²
I think
> as if everybody knows about that. I recall he said the surface was
delicate. 
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> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
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