Besides being a painting material, natural Japanese lacquer called URUSHI is a form-making material. While advantage of natural materials that could replace the fossil-origin item is freshly observed, the diverse character of the material has been revaluated in recent years in Japan.

The method called KANSHITSU is a way of making forms by using composite material that consists of natural fiber such as hemp for the structure and URUSHI as a resin. This method has same principle as FRP (Fiber-Reinforced Plastic) and Japanese people were hundred of years ahead of their time in the way they worked on KANSHITSU for making an image of Buddha before the invention of FRP in the twentieth century.

URUSHI X Laser Cutting
[Linked Oval Vessels]
This series of works is made of particles being cut out from KANSHITSU plate by laser-cutter and linked to each other by tiny acrylic custom-made rivets to make a shape. The shape is designed by a generative design environment (Rhinoceros + Grasshopper) and is representing the esthetic of a pattern of linked ovals that is found on the surface of artificial traditional products in anywhere in the world.

七宝紋胎壺姿乾漆透器（朱溜）
2012
175 x 175 x 400mm(W x D x H)
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