#12 Large Kokeshi Vessel Placemats This recipe includes tomato juice

This recipe includes tomato juice

homemade salad dressing and sauces

giving the entire silhouette a feeling of lift

Wearers have described it as everything from green and smokey

light bites

#12 Large Kokeshi Vessel Placemats This recipe includes tomato juiceAkio 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