Electric Pottery Wheel Experience

【Feel the heartbeat of the earth in your fingertips】 A luxury of creating shapes from 'nothing' with an electric potter's wheel

In the tranquility of the workshop in Ten'ei Village, the most exhilarating moment may be when you sit in front of the spinning 'electric potter's wheel' and gently place your hands on the damp clay. Once you turn on the switch, the lump of clay in front of you begins to spin like a living creature. What exists is a world of only your fingertips and the rotating clay. The electric potter's wheel experience is an exquisite intellectual entertainment that relies on the delicate sensations of your fingertips to materialize your ideals.

■ The world changes with a single fingertip: 'The pleasure of immersion'

Unlike hand molding, the electric potter's wheel, which utilizes centrifugal force, has a unique sense of speed and the fun of transformation.

• Intimate sensation that sticks: The feel of the smooth clay, made with water, is surprisingly sensual. When you focus on the center and gently poke a hole with your thumb, the thickness spreads evenly, and the shape of the vessel rises like magic.
• The thrill of manipulating change: With just a few millimeters of pressure from your fingers, the vessel stretches high or puffs up. The beautiful curves born in the moment when your breath synchronizes with the rotation are truly an art unique to the electric potter's wheel.

■ 'Professional realm' that even beginners can enjoy

You might have the image that it's 'difficult,' but the wheel that spins at a constant speed actually has the advantage of allowing beginners to easily create beautiful vessels with uniform thickness.

• With the guidance of the artist: With the support of the artist, you manage the reaction of the clay and shape it. Without fearing failure, as you grapple with the clay, you are eventually led into a deep state of immersion (zone) where you only think about the vessel in front of you.

■ And the soul goes to the flames of Tensho Kiln

Thus, the vessel that embodies your very 'breath' is finally fired by the flames of Tensho Kiln.

• From shape to artwork: The unique shape that you have turned on the wheel. When it is fired in the kiln protected by the master craftsman, it transcends mere 'vessel' and is sublimated into a 'treasure of a lifetime' that holds the memories of your journey.

The vibrations transmitted from your fingertips, the smell of the clay, and the surprise of the changing shape. Why not awaken the creativity that sleeps within you using the magical device of the electric potter's wheel?