About

Uematsu describes his practice as involving, prior to any sort of creative expression, a reckoning with the clay itself. It is an internal process, not of creating something based on a certain theme, but of feeling something when he touches clay dug out of the soil – the most primordial material for all terrestrial life forms – tapping wellsprings of creativity in what he finds there, and forging a link between the conscious and the unconscious. Uematsu’s work has developed through a primal and intuitive approach that transcends the existing frameworks and methodologies of ceramics or …