At the bottom of the lake...

„Pot-object“

At the bottom of the lake is a little lonely, broken bonsai pot, small crabs play on it. An ideal hideaway.


4,6 x 4 x 1,3 inch

Again play small crabes


Diameter: 5 x 2 inch


5,2 x 5,2 x 0,8 inch


Diameter: 5 x 0,6 inch


13,2 x 11 x 3 inch


Crabs pot by Peter Krebs
Hand made, fired to ca. 1230° C

Hello Peter,

it feels a bit strange to communicate in english with you, as we normally talk directly and in german...

But as you have shown your beautiful pots with the little crabs on them, I want to ask you a question.
In a japanese book about bonsai pots (you know, the one that Stefan gave to me as a present ) there were also photographs of japanese pots with crabs modelled upon them.
Do you know what the crab symbolizes in asia? I think it must have a traditional symbolic meaning, doesn't it?
Or did you just use it because of your own name?

Many greetings,

Heike

If i´m not mistaken Japanese think of mountains when they see a crab!

Peter

landerloos wrote:If i´m not mistaken Japanese think of mountains when they see a crab!

Peter

I know what i think of...dinner

Cool broken pot, has it really been thown in Lake?

Hi Peter,
I think this is not just a Japanese thing.

Hi Rock,
Daydreams are the most beautiful dreams.
This pot is an object and displays the transitoriness of things. The crack is specially manufactured and means "transitoriness". The crabs are the new life that arises in the old.

Dear Heike,

I do not believe that the crab in Japan or China is a great symbolic significance.
Nevertheless, you can see the crab on many everyday things of life.

Here is a small Chinese porcelain pot,





and a small Netsuke with crab of wood.



The crab has lent me his name, so he gets me in a place of honour.

Best regards
Peter

p.s. Heike van Gunst, my fairy godmother to me, together with Stefan Ulrich my articles for the IBC translated into English

peter krebs wrote:Hi Peter,

...This pot is an object and displays the transitoriness of things. The crack is specially manufactured and means "transitoriness". ...

Best regards
Peter

Peter you are the best salesman I've ever known.... well done!!

Hello Peter,

thank you very much for explaining about the crab's meaning in asia. Maybe they like it there because it tasts good and looks funny.
The pot with the crab painted on it is very nice!
I think I might have seen the netsuke crab before...

Many greetings, I'm still busy with the translations,

Heike

Hi Peter

I really like the "broken" pot you posted, I saw your "Dragon" pot with the three dragons years ago and again there is a similar break in the pot. As a potter myself I have not yet summoned the courage to "break" the pot and use this in the overall design of the ware. Perhaps, personally, I find it strange to break the perfectly thrown shape once the pot has been made. It shows though that in the two pots that I have you have created that the "Break" in the pot forms a beautiful and essential part of the image that you are creating. Perhaps one day I will find the courage to do this.

Again thanks for sharing you work and thoughts.

Regards

Andy

Stone Monkey wrote:Hi Peter

I really like the "broken" pot you posted, I saw your "Dragon" pot with the three dragons years ago and again there is a similar break in the pot. As a potter myself I have not yet summoned the courage to "break" the pot and use this in the overall design of the ware. Perhaps, personally, I find it strange to break the perfectly thrown shape once the pot has been made. It shows though that in the two pots that I have you have created that the "Break" in the pot forms a beautiful and essential part of the image that you are creating. Perhaps one day I will find the courage to do this.

Again thanks for sharing you work and thoughts.

Regards

Andy

Common Andy,

just do it

Kind regards from Denmark
Peter

Hi Andy,
Hi Peter

Thanks for your reply.

Andy!
All potter are a little bit crazy, and so they pottery sometimes things are not normal.

Best regards
Peter

peter krebs wrote:Hi Andy,
Hi Peter

Thanks for your reply.

Andy!
All potter are a little bit crazy, and so they pottery sometimes things are not normal.

Best regards
Peter

Hi Peter,

tell me about it, i now a few potters
But are they more crazy and the rest of the bonsaiscene, no dont think so. ( I myself is a litlle crazy aswell)

I did see one of your dragon pots years ago in the shop of Marc Noelanders, I wanted to buy it but my wallet was not big enough.
I do have 1 pot from the krebs, the collection you made together with Marc Noelanders.
Its never been used, I take out to look at it once in a while.

Kind regards
Peter

Hi Peter,

thank you for the nice text.
Yes, there were then 1996 +1997 +1998 +1999 +2000 pot one years limited to 50 pieces per:
They are now somewhere in the world.

Best regards
Peter

Interesting cracked pot Peter. It serves to help 'push the envelope' so to speak, of what is being expressed in today's bonsai pottery.

I am not really sure I would pot up anything in it; its more of an art piece for me. Still, it is healthy to see good quality one of a kind bonsai pottery existing in a continuum of the traditional to the avant-garde and anywhere inbetween.

In other words, thanks for keeping things fresh!

Hi Peter and Peter

Yes we are all a little crazy but as the great Salvador Dali once said

"There is only one difference between a madman and me.
The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am crazy"

May we continue to make "crazy pots" as they are so fantastic, beautiful and continue to push the boundaries out a little for both these wonderful art forms.

Regards

Andy

Stone Monkey wrote:Hi Peter and Peter

Yes we are all a little crazy but as the great Salvador Dali once said

"There is only one difference between a madman and me.
The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am crazy"

Regards

Andy

Hi Andy,

Salvador was no fool!!!

Hope to see you again soon
Peter