#37 Block Print Vessel Shipping-Light With more than a hundred

With more than a hundred photographs of finished dishes as well as moving and evocative atmospheric shots of Chinatown

After over a year of development

and a spout on the upper rim enables excess water to be poured out with a gentle tilt

zippy notes of lime and a sweetness that resists being cloying or overpowering

#37 Block Print Vessel Shipping-Light With more than a hundredAkio Nukagas work explores the possibilities of how he leaves a trace of himself in clay. In this piece, he stamps patterns into the soft, wet clay before it is fireda nod to Japanese techniques called inamun and mishimade. The form of the vesselinspired by ancient earthenwareappears textured and soft after stamping. After the first firing and before the second, he finishes the vessel by applying different colored slips (liquid clay)a technique that