Ken Fujimoto

Artist : Ken Fujimoto
Material : Okinawan trees
Area : Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

Ken Fujimoto is based in Nanjo City, Okinawa Prefecture, and uses a woodworking potter's wheel to create pottery made mainly from Okinawan trees such as banyan and red oak.

Distorted, chipped, or cracked....

Unique forms that vary depending on the characteristics of the wood.

The unique shape due to made from wet wood, rather than dried wood.
As time passes, the soft parts are pulled by the hard parts and reform.

Create a dialogue with trees and borrow the power of nature.

This is a one-of-a-kind woodenware that could only be created by he who knows everything about wood.