KEICONDO

£50.00

Keicondo

Opening on to a wooded field, the sound of bush warblers enters the studio of Keicondo.__ Inside it are letter shapes, photographs, pottery offcuts and other fragments of inspiration.__ The potter himself is affable in every respect as he discusses his journey to this spot. __ A year spent in Bolivia, a brief period working in a firm marketing concrete___ before a realisation that the opportunity presented by Kasama__þs pottery scene was too good to turn away from.__ ___There is something here that you can not find in other places__� he says.__ This does not mean that all was easy, and time was not needed to develop his distinctive style of fire singed yellows and blacks.__ Especially suited as a canvas for food presentation, Keicondo has built a particular niche supplying ingredient focussed bistros.__ The kind that serve natural wine.__ His travel in ceramics in some ways mirrors that of his father, an Ethiopian ceramicist who made his home in Kasama. __ This, he says typifies what the town is about: ___for someone to come from outside, and in Kasama to present work as Kasama-ware, seems like it might be an easy thing, but I wonder if 30 years ago there were many places like that.__ I haven__þt heard of it__�.__ Kasama is Keicondo__þs home.

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