The "I am a pot" ceramic sculptures are beings that self-identify as vessels, created using the coiling technique. Traditionally, any organism living in a shell is considered as a “being”, but here the tables are turned. The sculpture is not a hull, rather an organism by its own right, whose growth in time becomes evident in the final result. The apparent traces of hand movement mark the aspiration of a non-being to be, as a continuance or evolution of life.

Length 22 cm

The artefacts of this hand built sculptural series, created from parian porcelain, symbolise creatures that communicate with each other emitting light and continually evolving their shape. Here the maker captures an ephemeral moment of this everlasting movement.

Length 20 cm

Through this series of hand thrown vessels, Kika Hinari wanted to stress one of the most characteristic properties of clay: its plasticity. The clay bends under its own weight and thus gives the naturalistic feeling of human skin.

Height 15 cm

Kika Hinari chose bright colours to decorate these vessels, inspired by the vivid imagery of the sun as it rises from the clouds, a special moment, when we have a sense of optimism and calmness. This thrown teapot set was commissioned and created for the Museum of Cycladic Art Shop.

Length 20 cm

In palaeontology there’s a field that studies the biological activity of a plant or animal, based on the traces they leave throughout their lives. Starting from an exploration into this area of study, Kika Hinari created this micaceous clay vessel as a trace fossil. Every part of the hand thrown vessel symbolizes an old residence of a being that once lived inside.

Height 20 cm