#75 Block Print Vessel Ceramic Bowls At once elegant and modern

At once elegant and modern

I began with seed

visible only as a wide rim above the outer form

These trees are carved out of a single piece of wood

beginning with a darker red up top and drawing the eyes down into bright orange

#75 Block Print Vessel Ceramic Bowls At once elegant and modernAkio Nukagas work explores the possibilities of how he leaves a trace of himself in clay. In this piece, he stamps patterns into the soft, wet clay before it is fireda nod to Japanese techniques called inamun and mishimade. The form of the vesselinspired by ancient earthenwareappears textured and soft after stamping. After the first firing and before the second, he finishes the vessel by applying different colored slips (liquid clay)a technique that