Kikuko Kohno / Ceramics / Medium Plate Medaka Fish

"One day, my son brought some medaka fish to our home. We put them in a big jarwith water plants and started to watch them every day. In their new home, the medakas swam smoothly and peacefully. Water plants softly floating on the water touched the fish comfortably. The child's laughing face is reflected in the medaka. At first there were only three fish, but now there are nearly 20. Through daily repetition, both the children and the fish are growing up."

• Materials – Porcelain, inlay design
• Dimensions – 7.25" across

Kikuko creates porcelain tableware, carefully shaped on the potter's wheel. She then draws on the surface of clay, and inlays color into the lines of the drawing. The color is then wiped away—creating a beautiful design with fine, intricate design work with hard, sharp edges that can be difficult to reliably replicate in any other way.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kikuko Kohno was born in Nagasaki, Japan, a city with more than 400 years of history in ceramics and art. Her family owned a hotel, so she grew up surrounded by the beautiful tableware and art used in the hotel daily. In Nagasaki, there was a long-standing festival where the locals become performers, creating a world of brilliant, rhythmic and fantastic–one after another. This inspiration stayed with her. Kikuko went to Tokyo at 18 to make her debut as an illustrator. Later, she studied traditional music and performance art at the Cuban National Dance Company in both Havana, Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo. After returning to Japan, she moved to the countryside near Tokyo. Currently, she continues her performance art, painting, and pottery-making activities where all the stories of her imagination and lived experiences coexist. 

 

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