#12 Large Kokeshi Vessel Baskets & Storage and a hard cheese knife

and a hard cheese knife

A Heath holiday tradition that steals all our hearts

The weight in hand is precisely judged

challenging the idea that saucers are an afterthought

#12 Large Kokeshi Vessel Baskets & Storage and a hard cheese knifeAkio 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 traditional kokeshi dollsis 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