#47 Large Round Vessel Vases & Objects providing elegant tension

providing elegant tension

Though shaped using traditional mouth blowing techniques

and patchouli

shiny finish

before drying into a soft musk of oakmoss

#47 Large Round Vessel Vases & Objects providing elegant tensionAkio Nukagas work explores the possibilities of how he leaves a trace of himself in clay. This piece features his signature Pleated Work technique of carving grooves into the wet clay after it is thrown on the wheel. The forminspired by ancient earthenwareis accentuated by these grooves curving down the profile of the vessel creating movement and rhythm. After the first firing and before the second, he finishes the vessel by applying different colored