Anatomy of Earth and the Liquid Memory of Clay — Glass — Kodai Ujiie
Kodai Ujiie
Anatomy of Earth and the Liquid Memory of Clay · Sculptural ceramic, stoneware with layered glazes
Reference JPN-CLR-005
About the work
A glass vessel from Kodai Ujiie's Anatomy of Earth and the Liquid Memory of Clay, where dense, layered glaze pools and flows across a fractured stoneware body like a second, liquid geology. Matte, cracked fields sit against glossy glaze accumulations, shifting between solid ground and moving liquid as the light changes.
Detail
This glass belongs to Kodai Ujiie's Anatomy of Earth and the Liquid Memory of Clay, a series in which the ceramic surface itself becomes the primary structural element of the work. Its stoneware body carries the group's characteristic layered glaze, applied across a compressed and fractured surface so that colour pools, gathers and flows rather than sitting as flat decoration — a second, liquid geology laid over the clay. Matte, irregular fields of cracked ceramic sit directly against glossy, almost glass-like accumulations of glaze, and light plays across both: entering the relief structure to cast shadow inside the cracks, then catching and reflecting off the glazed ridges. As the viewing angle shifts, the surface seems to move between solid geology and liquid material, exactly the tension Kodai Ujiie builds the wider collection around — clay as a record of pressure, transformation and material memory, held here within the compact form of a drinking glass.
About the series
The glossy glaze accumulations across the collection are read as mineral pools, molten matter or liquid moving through fractured stone — in a glass vessel, that liquid language sits close to its function, glaze and use meeting on the same surface.
