Ceramic sculpture created on pottery wheel depicting piled perfume bottles and defined with Nagisa’s signature porcelain Japanese katakana characters.
This sculpture is depicting eight perfume bottles, representing each of the eight emotions (joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation), that have fallen over together and become one.
With her Kotoeri series, Nagisa is expressing how everyday thoughts and aimless words accumulate in the objects around us. She has used katakana characters in particular as Japanese language in katakana is the hardest to convey meaning, suggesting that what is in a persons heart is difficult for others to understand.
The characters are coloured using ‘platinum-sai’ techniques first used in porcelain originating from Arita town in Saga Prefecture over 400 years ago. The white porcelain characters are coated in platinum and fired at varying temperatures to create the desired colours.
W 250mm x D 45mm x H 252mm
Ceramic sculpture created on pottery wheel depicting piled perfume bottles and defined with Nagisa’s signature porcelain Japanese katakana characters.
This sculpture is depicting eight perfume bottles, representing each of the eight emotions (joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation), that have fallen over together and become one.
With her Kotoeri series, Nagisa is expressing how everyday thoughts and aimless words accumulate in the objects around us. She has used katakana characters in particular as Japanese language in katakana is the hardest to convey meaning, suggesting that what is in a persons heart is difficult for others to understand.
The characters are coloured using ‘platinum-sai’ techniques first used in porcelain originating from Arita town in Saga Prefecture over 400 years ago. The white porcelain characters are coated in platinum and fired at varying temperatures to create the desired colours.
W 250mm x D 45mm x H 252mm