White Porcelain Fruit — Ball — Nami Takahashi
Nami Takahashi
White Porcelain Fruit · White porcelain
Reference JPN-WHT-003
About the work
Part of Nami Takahashi's White Porcelain Fruit, this rounded form traces the swelling volume of a seed or bud rather than reproducing it literally. Ridges rise and rotate around an expanding body finished only in white, so light and shadow — not colour — carry the sense of growth.
Detail
This piece belongs to Nami Takahashi's White Porcelain Fruit, a series that isolates the structural logic of organic growth — swelling volume, asymmetry, repetition, a gradual movement toward opening — rather than reproducing any particular fruit or seed. Here that logic produces a rounded, expanding body: volume builds from a comparatively narrow base, ridges rise and rotate around the form, and the silhouette reaches a point of maximum fullness before beginning to gather again. The reference remains legible — something close to a seed, bulb or closed bud — while Takahashi's precisely articulated ridges push that reference toward abstract porcelain architecture rather than botanical description. Left in white porcelain, without added colour or surface decoration, the piece depends on its own volume and the light crossing it to read as form; rhythm and proportion carry small, deliberate irregularities that keep the work closer to a living structure than to a mechanically resolved geometric object.
About the series
The central subject of White Porcelain Fruit is not the appearance of a particular plant but the structural beauty of organic growth — volume expanding from a narrow base, ridges rising and rotating, before the body gathers again toward an opening.
