Interim Show Brixton East

    I showed four pieces of ceramic works and video on a laptop. Most of viewers focused on video. I need to think about how to show my works. The making processes are very important points of my work, and display both video works and ceramics is good way to describe it. However, it looks performance art and ceramics looks like support objects.  I need to explore best balance to show both process and ceramics.   

    I showed unglazed ceramics in this show. Glaze is a very important element of ceramics and it will change atmosphere of my works. I need to find out suitable glaze for my works.

Richard Deacon -ceramic works-

Richard Deacon(born 1949) is a British sculptor and a winner of the Turner Prize. His works are made of many kinds of materials( wood, polycarbonate, leather, metal etc).Recently, he put effort into making ceramic works.


He treats ceramics as one of material to make sculpture, its different from familiar ceramic artists who focus on only ceramics. Therefore his works have unique points, for example his glazing is not restricted by traditional ceramic rules or styles.


Untraditional way is a attractive point of his works, I think I have to consider ceramics except stereotype. But I Cannot forget my standing point as a ceramic artist, in other words, I also need to reconsider attractive points of traditional ceramics.

Repetition minimal art

Carl Andre

Donald Judd

Dan Flavin

Brancusi's endless column influenced Carl Andre. Then a lot of minimal artists adopted repetition in their works. Their works are good references like Brancusi's works.

I tried to make sculpture by repeat of similar ceramic unites. However it was totally same as other minimal artists. I need to develop 'repartition' by other way.

Constantin Brancusi - Endless Column-

Endless Column      

Constantin Brancusi(1876-1957) was a Romanian-born sculptor. 

Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column is the important work to research the relationship between scale and art. This work made by repetition of simple units, and he made image of endless by this way. This idea is useful to make huge scale work by limited craft work.

Art and Design

Is it possible to sort out design from art in the world of today?

 Design is described that the process of deciding how something will look, work, etc. by drawing plans, making models etc. in the dictionary. On the other hand, Art is described that  the use of the imagina<on to express ideas or feelings I am going to show 4 creators to think about this topic.

Francis Upritchard who is an artist and represented New Zealand at the 2009 Venice Biennale. She makes furniture and ceramic bowls with sculpture. 

Rick Owens who is a designer made those chair and stools. His works are treated as design work, but his works are not functional and we cannot use it in daily life. When we compare these two creators, they have a common thing that they make furniture, and it seems that there is no different points about function. 

 



Japanese artist Murakami Takashi collaborated with Louis Vuitton at 2005. He mentioned those works were art and challenge to consider free making. He had a client that is Louis Vuitton in this project, it seems art work made by client’s needs. In addition, He often states that art is interior for rich men and artists need to make artwork considering it. 

 



Finally, Staring Ruby. I saw his work in frieze art fair. But his work ware also displayed in Design Miami. It means one creator’s works are sold in both design and art markets. 

The situation surrounding art and design has been changing. The key difference between this two categories is context. I refer to both art and design context, but I have to consider and analyse my context to choose my field. it is also important to understand own work. 

Getting making workshop

I made a huge size of folded paper crane in the getting making workshop.This works shop realized me the standard scale of objects is decided by comparing with others. I have to consider whole scale to consider about miniature. I am going to change my research theme from 'miniature' to 'scale of craft'. It will make my project deeper.

Flowing glaze

The bigger ceramic become, the larger it has limits by gravity. Limitation of miniature pottery is lesser than bigger pottery. In my research, I am going to explore original materiality by using this advantage.

Control of melting and flowing glazes is difficult, especially, it is impossible to control flowing of glazes in big work perfectly. 

Glazing flowing glazes is very high risk for big sculpture that is taken long time. It might flow too much or too less. But in miniature pottery, I can control it more freely.

I would like to devise way of glazing and firing by take advantage of small size.

Wilhelm Kage

Ishiguro Munemaro

 Kato Tubusa

 Rose Cabat