SPIKY ROCK CUP

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" protruding from the vessel visualize and make tangible a power inherently present within objects.
It is rendered with a powerful expression, as if a force hidden within had burst out onto the surface.

Ceramics, a traditional craft nurtured over a long history.
Koga intends, by adding formal stimulation there, to give whoever holds it a fresh sense of surprise.