Interview with potter Mamie Yamamoto
Here are some of the artists whose cups are used at "M KYOTO CAFE by Leaf".
Yasuna Terada creates mainly ceramic accessories, vases, and vases for daily life.
We asked him about why he started making ceramics, his works, and his thoughts on the future.
Please enjoy the exhibition while relaxing at the café.
I was in a regular course in high school, and one of the things I mentioned in my career counseling was making things in the future. I wanted to make something with my hands, and as I studied ceramics at Kyoto City University of Arts, I realized that what I wanted to make was not a work of art, but something that was more closely related to daily life. That is why my graduation project was so small that people around me were surprised (laughs)."
After graduation, I needed a kiln and a pot to make original vessels and accessories, so I worked part-time for about three years to save up enough money to start my own business. As I actively participated in marche and events, I began to be approached by buyers of department stores. Currently, I am invited to events in various locations about once a month."
I am conscious of using colorful colors such as blue-green, pink, yellow, orange, and red to please the eye even when there is no food on top. I hope you will like the combination of colors like Asian melamine tableware and the ceramic atmosphere created by the glaze bleeding on the drinking cup.
The rounded design of the handle is inspired by the mouth of the Japanese character for "pappipepo," which means "half-mouth" in Japanese. I want people to look at the cup and feel lighthearted during their coffee break.
In parallel with the vessels, I am also working on accessories with motifs of auspicious designs drawn on vessels by people in ancient times, such as Mount Fuji, prawns, and pine trees, which I would like to introduce as Japanese accessories that go well with T-shirts. We will soon open an online store selling them, and plan to exhibit them at the Lavide Croissant lifestyle store in Toyonaka City in November and at "THE GIFT BOX," where creators associated with the university will exhibit and sell their work at the Kyoto Culture Museum Annex in December.
And one day, my big goal is to open a restaurant where people can put food and sweets on my vessels and buy them if they like them."
Group Exhibition
June 2013 66 Exhibition 2013, Hosono Building, Osaka, Japan
June 2014 66 Exhibition 2014 Hosono Building (Osaka)
January 2016 Two-person exhibition "Time for Tea" JARFO Kyoto Gallery (Kyoto)
August, 2018: Sweets in a Box Exhibition, Coffee Shop STOVE (Osaka)
November 2018 Demachi markt Former MII family's Shimogamo villa, exhibition in the garden (Kyoto)
April 2021 Demachi markt, Cultural Department, in the former Shimogamo villa of the MII family (Kyoto)
June 2021 Contemporaneous Exhibition, Contemporaneous Gallery (Kyoto)
July 2021 Drawer Keibunsha Kyoto Ichijoji Store Gallery Enfer (Kyoto)
Other exhibitions and sales at department stores, galleries, bookstores, etc.
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