I work with stoneware and porcelain, drawn to the tension between control and surrender. Each piece begins as an intention and ends as something else entirely.
I came to ceramics through an interest in impermanence. The Japanese concept of mono no aware — the bittersweet awareness of transience — shapes everything I make. Clay remembers every touch. It holds the record of its own making.
My practice centres on the vessel: its capacity to hold, to be empty, to suggest presence through absence. I am drawn to surfaces that have been through fire and emerged changed — cracked, bloomed, darkened in ways I did not plan.
I work slowly. Each piece takes weeks. I am not interested in production. I am interested in the single object that could not have been made any other way.
For inquiries about available works, commissions, or exhibitions, please write. I respond to all messages personally, though not always quickly.
studio@yukitanaka.jp
Kyoto, Japan