#16 Small Kokeshi Vessel in Indigo other Welcome home to freestyle

Welcome home to freestyle

A pair of quiet softly curving forms like the heads of mannequins

and hand-tooled and crafted by Sherrill Manufacturing

Quicker than a colander and infinitely more beautiful

and bakers

#16 Small Kokeshi Vessel in Indigo other Welcome home to freestyleAkio Nukagas work explores the possibilities of how he leaves a trace of himself in clay. This piece features his signature Pleated Work technique of carving grooves into the wet clay after it is thrown on the wheel. The forminspired by traditional kokeshi dollsis accentuated by these grooves curving down the profile of the vessel creating movement and rhythm. After the first firing and before the second, he finishes the vessel by applying different