BA (Hons) Ceramics 2005 |
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Shizou Kato |
One of my strong fascination is the footprints and finger marks of anonymous people of thousands of years ago that were found in caves, and the seacoast. When I look at the drawings and paintings done by painters, I am so fascinated with their brush marks, carefully drawn fine lines, pressure of the pencil, rubbed marks and so on. It is because I feel the presence of the maker through those qualities, I feel I am talking with the people beyond the time between us. A piece of work can be said a fragment of memory, transformation, and embodiment of the maker. As a maker, I am continuously informed by the characteristics of the material and respond to it by the sense of touch. I notice the beauty of the material by keeping seeing it. 'The mind is not just up in your head Regarding the process, I leave the trace of my body such as my hands and the knee of the solid block of clay. The movements of my hands come from the spontaneity of the body and instincts when I confront with the block. My intension in these works is to freeze the time and the space I experienced and to draw a sense of communication and loose, free, interpretation of the piece by the viewer. In this sense, a piece of work is completed by the participation of the viewer. |
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It is about a matter of communication between two different lives. Here it is between the maker and the material, between the piece out of the material and the viewer, and also between the maker and the viewer. 
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