A radical sculpture in colored porcelain by Murata Aya accompanied by a signed wooden placard titled Imo Mushi no Yume (An Inch-worms Dream).It is 29.5 x 21.5 x 23.5 cm (12 x 8-1/2 x 10 inches) and is in perfect condition. Each petal, flower, pistil and leaf are created individually, fired and set aside to be embedded into a body of softer clay which, when fired, shrinks down and locks the parts into place.
Murata Aya was born in Kyoto in 1979, and graduated the famous DODA Art School in 1998, before two years at the Kyoto College of Art, from which she graduated in 2000. Shen continued her studies at the Kyoto Prefectural Ceramics School, graduating in 2004.Since she has been exhibited widely both domestically and abroad, including The USA, Denmark, Finland, Taiwan, Italy, Korea and Belgium among others. She was selected for the prestigious Paramita Ceramic Art Taishoten in 2022. Works by her are held in the Korean Ceramic Foundation, the International Ceramic Museum in Faenze, the National Tainan University as well as the Yingge Ceramic Museum in Taiwan among others.
