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The material clay is a condensed version of the message of each climate. The clay is molded according to the properties of the material. The fallout from the pine and miscellaneous trees that fueled it has turned it into a ball of drippings. Some pieces are broken and shattered, while others, barely remaining, reveal unexpected forms. Is there really something beyond people's power to transcend the time axis?
-Ishii Naoto- Born in 1954 in Kyoto. Graduated from Hiroshima University Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences. After spending his early career farming in Northern Hiroshima, Ishi trained at a pottery studio known as Doraku-Toen in Iga, Mie prefecture. In 1992, he acquired a wild land in Kyotamba town in Kyoto. He then relocated an old Japanese house to the land to create his own workshop. After building a Noborigama Kiln, he had the first firing in 1994. Ishi is known to exhibit his pottery alongside contemporary art, such as cosmic wonder gallery and Axel vervoordt.
