Mugshot Monday 8.18.2014
Mugshot Monday with Sakai Mika
Sakai Mika is a Japanese ceramic artist, practicing the ancient Japanese technique of Nerikomi. This process is technical and complicated, but the results are stunning and awe inspiring! At first glance you may think these mugs have been expertly and precisely glazed, but they have actually only been glazed in a clear gloss which allows the color of tinted clay to shine through. Nerikomi is a technique for creating patterned slabs of clay to hand-build with. The clay body is colored with oxides or today stains are often used, and then patterns are created by stacking different shapes or slices of the tinted clay into a block. Slabs are then created by slicing each block into a usable sheet of clay which can be formed using slump or hump molds in most cases.This process is not only complicated, but fascinating! If you would like to see more of Sakai Mika's amazing work, visit www.studiokotokoto.com, and if you want to learn more about this incredible process,click here for images and a fantastic explanation of Nerikomi.
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