Jun Nishida (西田潤)
One of the highlights of my trip to the Brooklyn Museum yesterday was seeing a work by one of my favorite ceramicists, Jun Nishida (西田潤), in person. Nishida was around the same age as me, but he tragically died at only 28 years old while pursuing his passion: Working with Javanese artisans in Indonesia to help them preserve their pottery traditions.
Despite leaving us at such a young age, Nishida left behind an amazing body of work that explores the glaze-clay continuum and the very nature of ceramics. He described his work "as examples of nature, and are essentially copies of natural forms. It's similar to how Mother Earth makes stones." If you've never seen Nishida's work, I hope you'll search for him online.
Where Glaze Ends, and Clay Begins, A Journey Into the World of Nishida Jun
