Traces on plates
My work as artist in residency at 224 ProcelainThe delicately hand painted plants that cover the plate’s surfaces, make for a seemingly simple an elegent design.
Yet, if you look closer, you might discover that the cobolt plants grow and feed on an earlier life.
The reflextion of light uncovers the traces hidden beneath the flourishing illustrations.
This layered design is an collaboration between the traditional technique of handpainting a cobalt blue illustration on top of a digitally shaped and carved plate. The combination of machine work an hand work makes this hidden illusion possible.
>> In the spring of 2024 (april & may), I was invited to work at 224 porcelain as an artist
in residency. The bosses of 224 porcelain
are working hard to keep the ceramic village
called Yoshida on the map. As the owners of
the ceramic studio’s there are growing old,
more and more kilns dissapear and the
tradition is threatend to get extinct.
224 porcelain uses hyper modern machines
to keep Yoshida’s ceramic history relevant.
With the residency program, they hope to
attract young artists and craftsmen. I was
one of the first artists to join the program
(as an experiment).
My time at 224 porcelain was magical and
I hope more young artists will fall in love
with the little ceramic town in Saga, Japan.
The CNC machine carves the mold
out of a solid block of plaster:
