SPIKY ROCK CUP graffiti

Koga treats the ROCK CUP as a canvas, illustrated only with positive words styled after graffiti — "Get Stand Up", "Stay Gold", "Silver Lining". They are messages Koga casts out toward a world suffering under the pandemic.
Studs covering the whole surface evoke punk, graffiti evokes street culture — both find their place on the canvas of tableware, developed within Japanese culture.

The SPIKY series, said to deliberately approach today's flattened way of seeing things with a sense of the foreign and unfamiliar.
A luxurious work using gold and platinum.

Its form seems almost to refuse being picked up.
The "studs" jutting out from the vessel 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.