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Object number2024.2.A-B

Sensitive Apple - Black & White

Artist (Japanese, 1980)
Date2022
Mediumstoneware
DimensionsObject: 9 × 7 13/16 × 7 3/8 in. (22.9 × 19.8 × 18.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of David and Susan Thoms in recognition of the KIA’s 100th Anniversary
Exhibition HistorySugoi! 200 Years of Japanese Art (June 3 - Sept 24, 2023)Label TextOishi Sayaka studied at the Kyoto City University, graduating in 2004 with her BFA in Ceramics. Sayaka has stated that a central theme of her work is “decoration” which she says helps her understand and express complicated emotions. Her forms range from apples, tondos, rabbits, and other forms that incorporate and merge parts of the human body, animals, plants, and other organic forms along with manmade objects. Sayaka is interested in humanity's earliest experiences and emotions and how those qualities can be expressed artistically. The artist uses both the real world and her imagination to create compositions of forms that mix and merge into one another. Sakaya’s practices also center Shinto, a polytheistic religion comprised of eight million different gods in the world in a world where both bad and good, light and darkness coexist. Her unconventional combinations can be unsettling. However, the artist strives to convey how Japanese culture has incorporates-even appropriates other cultural ideas and subjects to communicate the universal nature of these elements. In Sensitive Apple - Black & White, the artist uses the main form of an apple and applies an ear, a turtle, seashells, a hand, and other forms to its surface. The overall effect inspires curiosity and wonder. As varying forms protrude and merge upon/within the apple itself, one can’t help but think about the religious and cultural significance of apples as one of humanity's first means of sustenance, and symbolic of temptation and vice. Overall, Sakaya’s work expresses the depth of human emotion and society, while revealing the compelling aesthetic qualities of the world around us.

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