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OISHI SAYAKA
"The subject of my work is “decoration”. I understand “decoration” enables me to express indescribably complicated emotions and it is indispensable to human beings. At the same time that I entrust my own complicated emotions to “decoration”. Moreover, I am conscious of the existence of a kind of “order” in the “decoration” with this unique worldview I think it is the same as the order existing in the ebb and flow, breathing and pulse. I suppose I can also call it “rhythm”. I believe my works will resonate in everyone ’ s heart regardless of religion by cherishing this primordial “order”.
In the process of creating ceramics I experience the micro world touching the clay particles with fingers and the macro world by gravity from the glaze flow discovered through firing Accepting, taking advantage of this experience and creating the works I only can do, I will see the primordial “order” just like breathing or ebb and flow embodied in my works. Moreover this order will sublimate the emotional expression of "decoration" into more essential and higher sympathy with viewers. I sincerely hope that my “decoration” will provide a good chance for people present at my exhibition to sympathize with each other, transcending the differences of language, race, or religion."
In her artistic practice, Oishi Sayaka explores the possibilities of decoration, and how it offers philosophical, emotional and metaphorical potential in artistic expression in clay. She is an emerging artist whose works are exhibited domestically in Japan and abroad. She studied Maiolica techniques in Italy, melding historical techniques from abroad with Japanese sensibilities.
