TOSHIAKI NODA

Toshiaki Noda has been primarily working on ceramic art since he realized the potential of the medium. He has been fascinated with the characteristics of ceramics such as the plasticity of clay that gives him many options and a spontaneous approach in building form. The textures and colors he can get only from the alchemy of glazes that he can not have full control over, attracts him. Noda invariably gets his inspiration from the passage of time and visual changes of things caused by both natural and unnatural events over time such as layers in canyons accumulated and exposed over many years, weathered abandoned buildings, re-pasted and faded advertisement posters on city walls, a squashed can in a road, layered paints peeling off of a wall, and so on. These visual elements grab his attention because he is intrigued by the stories behind those physical changes. The quotidian objects have inadvertently become mysterious looking things with peculiar textures and compositions. These visual encounters influence his aesthetic sense and main concept. Clay that has formed over time in a stratum of the earth and then was dug up to become a glazed art piece in a kiln, bears conceptual resemblance to the aforementioned.