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[ Statement of intent ]

My basic and consistent position in making pottery is "facing tradition". Tradition, although it presents itself as rejecting people's interference and intrusions, is in fact the accumulated "convention" of all the people living in a specific period, so it is possible, in any period, for us to destroy or reconstruct it. Tradition is not fixed or immutable, and the people who "create" it live in the passing waves of generations and in the recurring certainty of fatality. I consider the most important aspect of this fatality to be "otherness" (not necessarily only of human beings), and have observed this aspect in the traditional spirit of Japanese pottery. The relation with the kiln as a tool, with my materials, with myself and with observers -- the relation with "others" -- involves intuiting the margin that is to be shared. For myselfas a creator/presenter, the pursuit of "otherness" amounts to intuiting that margin.

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