Kato Mami 加藤真美 b. 1963
H34 × W13.5 × D13.5 cm
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A striking contemporary flower vase by Kato Mami that recalls beautiful flower buds emerging during spring. Built through Kato’s distinctive slab building techniques using Seto porcelain that rely on weight and gravity to inform her clay, the piece has both an organic and precise expression. Her signature “Frost glaze” creates crystalline textures that ripple across the surface, casting soft, shifting shadows that invite meditation. Based in Tokoname, Kato Mami creates vessels as sites of reflection and human connection. She is a multiple Grand Prize recipient at the Mino Ceramics Exhibition in Gifu.
About her Kishibe series, she describes it as an exploration of our ability to connect with others, and with versions of ourselves across time, past and future. As she expresses: “This work evokes a sense of the self on this shore, and those who have come before us on the opposite one—figures standing along distant banks.”
こちら側にいる自分と、先に逝った人たち、あちら側、両岸にたたずむ者達、といったイメージです。
–– Kato Mami, on the Kishibe series (2025).