White Porcelain Fruit — Stick — Nami Takahashi
Nami Takahashi
White Porcelain Fruit · White porcelain
Reference JPN-WHT-007
About the work
An elongated form from Nami Takahashi's White Porcelain Fruit, this piece stretches the series' rhythmic ridges along a narrower, extended body. Cast in white porcelain via the Ikomi process, its surface depends entirely on light travelling along each ridge and gathering in the channels between them.
Detail
This elongated piece belongs to Nami Takahashi's White Porcelain Fruit, extending the series' vocabulary of swelling, rhythmically ridged volumes along a narrower, more stretched body. As throughout the group, the reference stays close to plant structure — something between a stem, shoot or extended seed form — without ever becoming a literal botanical copy; Takahashi is interested in the structural logic of growth rather than its appearance. The surface is left in plain white porcelain, made through the Ikomi casting process in which slip is formed within a plaster mould before the artist refines the ridges and curved transitions by hand, and it is light rather than colour that finally activates the form: illumination travels along each raised ridge while shadow settles into the channels between them, so the object's apparent depth and rhythm shift continuously as the surrounding light changes. Small, deliberate irregularities in that ridge work keep the piece from reading as mechanically precise, holding onto the same sense of organic, self-directed growth that runs through the wider White Porcelain Fruit series.
About the series
Takahashi allows shadow itself to become decoration — the porcelain body establishes the physical structure, while light determines how that structure is perceived, changing continuously with the direction and quality of the surrounding illumination.
