Cross-cultural Identity Through Clay, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan. 4/10/18 to 4/11/18 (Arriving)

Shigaraki Town Poster at Kibukawa train station.

Small traditional looking train that goes to Shigaraki leaving from Kibukawa train station.

A welcoming Japanese racooon dog known as a tanuki. A very popular ceramic statue found everyware in Shigaraki.

The sign to the front entrance of the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park were myself and Wen-Hsi Harman will be undertaking our residency.

A view of Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park.

The local clay store were we purchased our clays.

The local Clay Factory apart of the same comapny of the Clay Shop.

The local Tool and Glaze Materials Shop.

We could not resist buying a glaze so we purchased a red and purple glaze and we are looking forward to trying it.

It has been a couple of days now into the residency at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan. Myself and my project partner Wen-Hsi have jumped rite into action as we have one month so time is precious so we will do our best to keep our news updated.

So far we have arranged our studio space, visited the clay shop and I was amazed by the huge variety of clays, very natural looking with different colour variations. Not to mention the clay factory being interesting too as we got a glimpse into how they produce their clay. Then there was a stop off at the tool and glaze shop with so many colourful glazes, and again I really noticed I kind of natural or raw like quality. I guess this runs with the ceramic aesthetic of Japan.

We are a couple of days into the making of our project, we will upload some images of our progress soon.