Jun Kaneko - Transcript
[MUSIC]
[George Neubert]
Kaneko brings together a global view of contemporary sculpture, contemporary ceramics. The tradition of ceramics of Japan with the revolution of ceramics in contemporary art in America. And combines the best of those in the extraordinary objects, egmatic objects that he creates.
[Jun Kaneko]
I’ll tell you, everybody doing clay work makes dongo. Cause dongo is Japanese. And then when you start using clay, usually people end up with a bowl shape. Everybody is doing it, but I guess I got idea from that part of it. It took me a couple of years because it’s so simple and it’s, you don’t feel like, you know, this is my piece. You just raise it up and make a bowl and here [CHIME].
The bottom line of necessity to be a visual artist. You have to make something visual. It is almost an impossible thing to translate the experience by word. [CHIME]
No matter how much time you spend to try to explain to me about the meal that you ate last night, I didn’t taste it. If somebody came and look at my piece and didn’t say anything, and said, oh I like it. Oh whatever. Then that’s good enough for me.
So to me, I have a little bit of suspicion about create... something, create that. I don’t think creative energy is anything special. I really believe everybody has it. Somehow as people grow, some people start losing that part of it. Some people are just wrong how to keep it or maybe make it stronger.
The craftsmanship is a funny thing for anybody when they start making something. We are here, material is there. But I think...masters, they may be the people who went over that concept and were able to become material itself. If one start looking at it that way, lots of technical things start changing. So my hope is one day I would be able to become clay itself. Then there’s no technical problem. Because I would know everything.
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