The Story of Black & Red lacquer

The Story of Black and Red

The sunsets and skyscapes in the Noto Peninsula are gorgeous and I wanted to try to reflect that beauty by using red gradating into black on a series of Wajima-nuri bowls the shape of which I designed with inspiration from a flower bud. Later, when I studied about the Jomon people link and found out that red urushi was the symbol of life (living blood) and black urushi, death (dead blood) it took on a whole new meaning for me as a way of expressing the life cycle of birth and death and rebirth and as a way of connecting on a spiritual level with our ancestors.