A collective formed around the vision of a single artist.
While honoring Japanese traditional techniques and carefully selected materials, the collective pursues innovation to create new value. By attentively interpreting and interweaving the relationships among diverse elements such as clay and glaze that constitute ceramics, they express a beauty that exists between the deliberate and the accidental.
〈Concept〉
Concepts of time, memory, life, and nature are articulated in ceramic form, using raw clay and glaze to embody elements such as cracks, distortions, shrinkage, voids, and abrasions. What is the essence of matter and form that can be embraced by the ancient notion of beauty? As if tracing its contours, they project this inquiry into three-dimensional form, quietly stirring our sensibilities. From form, glaze, color, texture, and fissures, one may discern the lineage of East Asian ceramics. The artist refines raw materials and develops them technically in order to express this aesthetic sensibility in a contemporary manner.
〈Materials〉
The kaerome clay sourced from Seto, Aichi Prefecture, is a highly plastic white clay, rare even on a global scale. It is composed primarily of kaolin and quartz. The parent rock, granite deposited on an ancient lakebed, has undergone a unique weathering process in which iron, magnesium, and alkali elements were almost entirely leached out, yielding its distinctive whiteness. The name “kaerome” derives from the resemblance of the white quartz grains within the clay to the eyes of a frog.
Clay collected from the natural environment is indispensable to the creation of works by 6elements, profoundly influencing the colors and textures of the glaze. The artist continues to explore the infinite possibilities of clay and glaze, focusing on the combinations of these materials that allow for diverse forms of expression.