Chariots on Fire introduces: 

Tenshin Juba

Alchemist-potter Tenshin Juba creates earthenware and stoneware from his studio in the lush mountain hill-side of Kobe, Japan.  It is terrain Juba has explored since childhood:  densely green in summer, and thick with towering bamboo and moss-laden pine; by winter, the earth occluded from view beneath layered snowfall.

Here, Juba creates in rhythmic manner—his sourcing of raw materials facilitated by the cycles of his natural world; it is the artist’s intention to let the laws of nature prevail.

A combination of organic materials, such as rice straws and chestnut husks, are paired with ‘low-tech’ methods to catalyze a variety of results: smooth, glassy finishes and saturated, inky blue-black, deep Sedona red, or naturally-occurring platinum tones.

As a final process, he readies his kiln to attain a temperature of 2336°F/1280°C. Once the works are positioned within, the chemical transformations of the High Fire process assume control.

After approximately one week of intense firing, the kiln's temperature gradually diminishes. Juba, guided by touch and intuition, opens the kiln.

"The High Fire ceramics stand in stark contrast to my electric-fired works, as they reflect the distinct interplay between the inherent energy of the fire and the effort I commit to controlling its potential"

— Tenshin Juba

—Venice, California, October 2023