#67 Medium Kokeshi Vessel Well Plated Let your imagination fill in

Let your imagination fill in the possibilities for this basket

this Soup Bowl was created for Alice Waters' iconic Chez Panisse restaurant in 2006

on the stairs

sophisticated

has great simplicity of line

#67 Medium Kokeshi Vessel Well Plated Let your imagination fill inAkio 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