"Struggling forms", Mino ware

Nakashima Harumi (born in Ena city in 1950) who studied pottery art at Osaka University of Arts has been teaching at the Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center and Aichi University of Education for many years, and he is one of the modern artists who have influenced many young potters. His kutō-suru keitai (“struggle form”) is a theme he has been working on for many long years, through which he questions the relationship between the organic form born from the plasticity of the clay and its inner/outer layers.