HATTORI MAKIKO (1984-) Release Heisei era (1989-2019), 2016Important works of art from an American private collectionHATTORI MAKIKO (1984-)Release Heisei era (1989-2019), 2016The massive unglazed porcelaneous coil-built stoneware body applied with thousands of clay shavings 12 1/2 x 17 x 16 1/4in (38.4 x 43.2 x 41.3cm)Like many contemporary Japanese women ceramists Hattori abandoned vessel forms soon after graduating, preferring to specialize in sculpture. Using a painstaking, time-consuming technique that restricts her annual output to about half a dozen works, she applies countless individual paper-thin shavings of clay to her coil-built sculptural forms until the entire surface is covered, inside and out.