Oishi San just returned from a residency in Italy studying Maiolica techniques. Recently, she has been thinking about creating her works with both Japanese and Italian influences in mind. The...
Oishi San just returned from a residency in Italy studying Maiolica techniques. Recently, she has been thinking about creating her works with both Japanese and Italian influences in mind. The swirling marbled clay at the base of this piece with the bright yet sensitive aqua blue really speaks to just one of the new techniques she's been honing.
She states: “The subject of my work is “decoration”. I understand “decoration” enables me to express indescribably complicated emotions and it is indispensable to human beings…. Moreover I am conscious of the existence of a kind of “order” in the “decoration” with this unique worldview. I think it is the same as the order existing in the ebb and flow, breathing and pulse. I suppose I can also call it “rhythm”. I believe my works will resonate in everyone’s heart regardless of religion by cherishing this primordial “order”