Ceramic sculpture of a hand mirror made using ‘Tatara’ style moulding techniques and defined with Nagisa’s signature porcelain Japanese katakana characters.
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 251mm
Ceramic sculpture of a hand mirror made using ‘Tatara’ style moulding techniques and defined with Nagisa’s signature porcelain Japanese katakana characters.
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 251mm