Description
This yorishiro handmade clay spirit vessel seals a single Abyss Collection coin inside a fissured disc finished in red over charred black. The red breaks across the raised clay and pools dark in the cracks, a fibre rope bound at the crown.
The disc face is heavily worked, split with deep fissures that expose pale grey clay beneath the pigment. Red sits brightest on the raised ridges and sinks to near-black in the recesses, with ash-grey mottling washing over the lower body and faint iridescent flecks catching on the flared foot. The shell is left raw and unsealed, so the texture stays open and dry to the hand, while the coin sealed within is archival stable. A handmade sculpture that holds its weight on a shelf or hangs from the bound rope loop, this is a collector’s piece worked as a single object.
In the collection’s telling, a yorishiro is a vessel a wandering spirit settles into rather than a shrine it is summoned to. This one was cast to hold what slips loose at dusk, the half-formed things that gather at thresholds and will not move on. The red is said to mark a vessel already occupied, the charred black the burn of whatever was drawn in and kept. The coin sealed at its core is the anchor the spirit cannot leave.
Each vessel is made and finished by hand under the OWEN mark, no two faces alike.
Display stand shown in photos is for photography only and not included.
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