Ayaka Terajima

Slipware with string doki, 2024

Unglasierte, aus recyceltem Ton gebrannte Keramik, Engoben (Slipware)

14cm x 16cm x H22 cm

This unglazed over-decorated ceramic sculpture is the result of a technique I have developed over the past six years, inspired by the richly decorated earthenware of the Japanese Jōmon period (14000-1000 BCE). The ancient clay pots are characterized by their distinctive relief patterns in the form of ropes representing snakes, a universal symbol of rebirth, and other readily available surfaces such as shells and plants.

My work uses recycled clay from my own making, and for the reliefs I use the patterns and negative space of thin plastic containers of everyday items, which stem from a logistic-philosophy of ordering time and space. As the precarious state of materiality in a mechanized, digitalized society is increasingly determined by logistics, I am interested in the transformational processes of both design and materiality in this evolution of mass production. I consider a story of spiritual rebirth and material regeneration through the contemporary lens of logistics, consumption and recycling.

Nominiert für den SIMACEK AWARD 2025.

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