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Bright and beautiful: Experimental pottery by Takuro Kuwata.

The experimental Japanese potter and artist Takuro Kuwata has a passion for creating bright pots that make people feel happy when they see them. He finds artistic expression through the natural qualities and characteristics of the materials he works with.

In this series of pieces there is a development in the idea that certain aesthetic qualities are contained, but concealed within the same piece. To appreciate the entirety, the individual qualities must be revealed which in the process creates an aesthetic tension thus completing the work. Read more

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In the shadows. The Scatos Series by Joke Burks.

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Photos: Joke Burkes

Scatos comes from a medieval word for shadows. The Dutch ceramic designer, Joke Burkes, has a fascination with shadows. He observes them with a passion – photographing and drawing them until he captures their ethereal quality. He then transforms that fleeting moment first into clay and then into ceramics. Read more

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