#1 Block Print Vessel w25reporting Pleasant and practical in stainless

Pleasant and practical in stainless steel with resin handles and brass rivets

A cactus lives inside

Its tapered ends are slenderly pointed — not bluntly cut off — providing an understated elegance to its long and balanced line

I remember seeing Chinese orchids and admiring their long

#1 Block Print Vessel w25reporting Pleasant and practical in stainlessAkio Nukagas work explores the possibilities of how he leaves a trace of himself in clay. In this piece, he stamps patterns into the soft, wet clay before it is fireda nod to Japanese techniques called inamun and mishimade. The form of the vesselinspired by ancient earthenwareappears textured and soft after stamping. After the first firing and before the second, he finishes the vessel by applying different colored slips (liquid clay)a technique that