SPIKY SHELL BI 0621-XXX

A guinomi sake cup (ochoko) with a distinctive form said to be inspired by a shell in bronze coloring.
The SPIKY series deliberately approaches today's flattened way of seeing things with a sense of the foreign. It is distinguished by a form that seems to refuse being picked up at all.
The protrusions radiating outward make visible and tangible a force inherently latent within an object. The result is a powerful expression, as if the hidden strength within had burst out onto the surface.
Ceramics, a traditional craft nurtured over a long history. Koga intends, by introducing a stimulus in form, to give the person holding it a fresh sense of surprise.

Guinomi size, approx. 65 cc