White Porcelain Fruit — Nami Takahashi
Nami Takahashi
White Porcelain Fruit · White porcelain
Reference JPN-WHT-005
About the work
In Nami Takahashi's White Porcelain Fruit, form itself becomes the image: cast in plain white porcelain using the Ikomi process, each piece lets light and shadow redraw its rhythmically ridged surface rather than relying on colour or applied decoration.
Detail
This work is part of Nami Takahashi's White Porcelain Fruit, in which the artist isolates the principles that make organic growth visually compelling — swelling volume, asymmetry, repetition and tension — without reproducing any specific fruit, seed or bud. Colour and pictorial decoration are deliberately removed; finished only in white porcelain, the piece depends on form and light to read as image, with each raised ridge catching illumination while shadow gathers in the channels between them, so a static object acquires a subtle, continuously shifting sense of movement as the light around it changes. The pieces in this series are made using the Ikomi casting process, in which porcelain slip is formed within plaster moulds — a technique Takahashi uses to build highly controlled yet asymmetrical volumes, which she then refines by hand at the level of individual ridges and transitions. That technical precision does not read as mechanical: small inconsistencies in rhythm and proportion preserve the irregularity associated with living forms, so the work remains, in Takahashi's own terms, a sculpture about how a form grows into itself rather than a representation of any single fruit.
About the series
Rather than depicting a particular plant, the series treats structural growth itself as subject — volume expanding, ridges rotating, the body reaching fullness before gathering toward an opening — transforming the logic of a fruit or seed into abstract porcelain architecture.
