Fukumo Touki: Souvenirs from Heaven and Hell: Solo Exhibition

Within a single ceramic vessel, countless parallel worlds exist.

For instance, the character painted on the front of a plate would never know that another character exists on its back, nor would it ever imagine that there is another world behind its own surface.

A pot, too, has an inside and an outside, yet perhaps those two sides remain unaware of each other's existence.

The same might be said for the body and lid of a vessel, a cup and its saucer, or a teapot and its cup.

And yet, we humans are capable of perceiving all these worlds at once.

We can read meaning through the relationship between interior and exterior, or use a pot and cup as a set.

Perhaps the universe we live in is the same-I can't help but think so.

Maybe other universes we know nothing about are right beside us.

Perhaps, in the unknown, a greater being is observing us.

In the world we inhabit, Fuku Ceramics are objects of no practical use.

But in another world, might they serve some purpose?

In any case, I have freely imagined souvenirs from other worlds-and tried to make them.

That is what this exhibition presents.

I wonder, who would buy them?

-Fukumo Touki