Through deeply personal recipes and stories about the neighborhood that often inspires them

attaching handles with careful welding

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#20 Torso Vessel Ceramic Bowls Through deeply personal recipes andAkio 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 ancient earthenwareis 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 colored