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Makoto Hatori,ceramic artist who trained as a Japanese traditional potter but expresses his own philosophy into new, contemporary creations.

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___________________________________________Artist Statement

My basic and consistent position in making pottery is "facing tradition". Tradition, although it presents itself as rejecting people's interference and intrusions, is in fact the accumulated "convention" of all the people living in a specific period, so it is possible, in any period, for us to destroy or reconstruct it. Tradition is not fixed or immutable, and the people who "create" it live in the passing waves of generations and in the recurring certainty of fatality. I consider the most important aspect of this fatality to be "otherness" (not necessarily only of human beings), and have observed this aspect in the traditional spirit of Japanese pottery. The relation with the kiln as a tool, with my materials, with myself and with observers -- the relation with "others" -- involves intuiting the margin that is to be shared. For myselfas a creator/presenter, the pursuit of "otherness" amounts to intuiting that margin.

___________________________________________Ceramic Art - Makoto Hatori [ Ceramic art ] is for pertaining to ceramist and related three- dimensional artist. This is for the passionate ceramic artist all over the world who are willing to come together and talk about new ideas and methods used.

___________________________________________"Argue for Argument's Sake," (w)120.0 - (d)40.0 - (h)44.0 cm, handbuild Bizen stoneware, natural wood ash, traditional way fired to 1300 degrees C. in oxidized or reduced atmoshere, eight-day firing, with metal.

___________________________________________My work, transcends "ceramics" and is somewhere between pure sculpture and philosophical calligraphy. The use of ceramic with other materials is usually very risky but I have achieved intense and convincing synthesis.

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___________________________________________Makoto Hatori's "Wood-fired Teabowls," wheel-thrown Bizen stoneware, natural wood ash glaze 1280-1300 degrees C., reduction or oxidation eight days in Japanese bank kiln.

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