作ることがすき。土が好き
私にとって作ることは生きる事、愛する事、祈る事。
​目まぐるしく変化し湧きあがる言語化できない感情、頭から離れない言葉や情景をメモするように土を積み上げます。​人間の本能に訴えかけるような物を作りたいと日々考えながら制作しています。

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Profile

 

 

Mana Umezawa is a ceramic artist based in Gifu and Kanagawa, Japan.

Her works embody contradictions and emotional landscapes, exploring the coexistence of strength and fragility, concealment and exposure, sinking and floating.

Through clay, she transforms inner emotions into tangible forms that resonate as living presences.

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Artist Statement

 

 

Clay is my companion, a medium through which I encounter my subconscious and give form to emotions that cannot be spoken. By touching it directly with my hands, I sense its smell, humidity, and rhythm, which connect me deeply to my inner world.

 

Ceramics is both discipline and discovery. Each piece requires many processes, and throughout them both the clay and I continue to transform. Small mistakes reappear later, sometimes only revealed after firing. These traces accumulate in the work, becoming a testimony of my being.

 

At the heart of my practice lies contradiction—the coexistence of fragility and strength, concealment and exposure, sinking and floating. My vessels often appear as organic forms, shells, or proliferating presences, reflecting emotions expanding outward.

 

To create is inseparable from living. My works are my most honest communication with others—an offering of vulnerability and connection beyond words.

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