SPIKY SAKE CUP W

White, gold, and platinum — a color scheme distinctly Koga's own, in this white sake cup. Its form is unique, triangular-pyramid protrusions emerging from a sphere-like curve. Pour in a clear liquid and the gold interior shines all the brighter.

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.

120g