Keiko Masumoto
STATEMENT
The vessel is, of course, a utilitarian form.
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But there are vessels that are simply decorative;
they exist without flowers being arranged or food being served in them.
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These vessels are as a matter of course placed for
appreciation in the entrance hall of a house or in its Tokonoma alcove.
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Most such pieces are referred to as craft objects,
but these transcend the crafts, which by nature are useful.
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If they are simply decorative pieces, in fact,
there is no need for them to make the vessel form.
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The categories "fine art" and"craft" have long been present in Japan,
but today, for most people, the boundaries between them are vague.
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Perhaps that is because people are more
comfortably looking at craft pieces,
which seem more approachable and familiar than
the unfamiliar mysterious presence we call fine art.
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The vessel form may thus be one type of device used in the studio crafts,
like the painting and the frame in the fine arts.
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Whether art or craft,
I want to offer work that is intensely conscious of that category,
that framework, to explore what I myself felt.
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What spurred me to create this series of works was the idea
that they might generate some insight, If featured in an intriguing way;
works that are situated on that ambiguous boundary.
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