Kentaro Kawabata

Kentaro Kawabata works primarily with porcelain, creating vessels, spoons, and sculptures with organic forms. Small pieces of colored glass are embedded in the porcelain clay, creating delicate streams of color as they blend into the surface glaze. The patterns and colors that emerge when the porcelain is fired are always an exciting surprise for Kawabata. As his vessels generally reflect the human body, the glass also acts as a link between the inner and outer worlds. Kawabata’s interest in the power of regeneration is expressed not only by his fingerprints that can be found on the surface of his works - suggesting that his pieces are alive - but also by the production of new sculptural works made from clay leftover from previous projects.