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Over the years, clay has changed into various expressions, and it has been refined to create patterns by layering them together.Fascinated by this technique, which is said to have the same pattern on the outside and inside like Kintaro candy, Mr. Yasuki KAKEYA opened an atelier in his hometown Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture in 1998 and has continued to make ceramics there.
Mr. Kakeya saw the marbling ceramics by Seijiro Takeuchi, the father of Mr. Maki Takeuchi of Kurashiki Tsutsumi Kiln, and was so impressed that he instantly fell in love with it. Until then,he was not interested by folk art !We think that Mr. Kakeya's ceramics shows both his craftsmanship and his artistry.We believe that ceramics such as Kanjiro Kawai and Shoji Hamada, who started the Mingei movement, were craftsmen who mastered folk art, but they were also artists with an innate sense of first-rate taste. How do we strike a balance between practical beauty and aesthetic beauty?We believe that Mr. Kakeya is able to achieve this beautiful balance because he is always motivated and humble in his work and beauty. And Mr. Kakeya's training is not about trying to perfectly express the patterns he envisions in his head with clay, but rather there is a kind of calming gap, and we think that is what makes it beautiful. .
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