My aim is to merge the uniqueness of handmade craftsmanship with the consistent beauty of industrial products. I create various colored clays by mixing pigments with porcelain.  I then pour multiple layers of colored clays into a plaster mold and once dry, meticulously carve through those layers creating intricate patterns among the various hues. The most deeply carved areas are thin enough to become translucent, allowing light to pass through.

My works are born in a hand made mold of which I currently I have between 100 to 150 in total, but I have never counted them. For the Kasaneirome series, six colors are cast in each piece, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red sandwiched between white, so there are 7 layers.  In other words, the outermost color is poured first, the second color is poured after it has dried, and so on, until the last color is the inner color.  After molding, each piece is uniquely carved by hand through the layers while it is still in the raw dry state. The colors that emerge depend on the depth of the gouge. I can carefully carve out to one paper thin layer of white allowing light to pass through the vessel, but this is a tedious process.