David Louveau de La Guigneraye
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function as identity
between tensions and letting go . This principle that we find in the Tao is a fundamental principle of martial arts but not only, that, just as the stroke of the brush in calligraphy can evoke an emotion in which the painter has. it is the same with the musician guqin xiao or shakuhachi I practice with great rigor the fact of touching the porcelain only with a certain emotional state. I respect the spontaneity of my gesture and do not seek to hide any error quite the contrary without accentuating the defects which would be indecent for me. For my current work of porcelain it carries an importance to the quality of the water for the mixture of my paste of porcelain which is a French mixture and that of my glazes without a certain recipe, let us thus give as one in the kitchen a certain form of spontaneity creating slight differences with each firing, based on local granites from Sweden, ashes from my stove and a fine limestone rock. My high temperature firing method is currently a very modern electric kiln my glaze preparation method remains that which is found in the Chinese and Korean medieval periods. I work on tea cups of different sizes as well as gaiwans, gong dao bei, plates, tea boats and also teapots, vases for floral decorations and tea jars also incense pots ....... I work with the confidence of the memory of my hands really leaving spontaneity like a brush stroke my gesture Marc the material and I respect that like an engraved emotion that will be shared I live fully according to its principles after having been professional acrobats firefighters of Paris and apprentice of a Japanese in Canada for 2 years (30 years ago)who developed with his friend Kuroda Taizo a certain type of gestures but also a certain philosophy an approach which with time allows me to say it's all in the tao ... I also work on Korean techniques in particular for an expression of my more masculine Yang emotions on a certain type of tea bowls and I am preparing an expressive work on the Korean Deombheongyi for me porcelain is like a vital need and tea for me beyond tasting a way of being, of apprehending, of practicing and also healing too. and above all share in the simplest way