#25 Small Torso Vessel Vases & Objects Vegetable Bowl

Vegetable Bowl

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

Forms whose profile undulates in and out never really resolving in a straight line

for decoration on the floor

The exterior

#25 Small Torso Vessel Vases & Objects Vegetable BowlAkio 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 ancient earthenwareis 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 colored