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安食ひろ

Ajiki Hiro

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Ajiki Hiro

Photo by Carol Horvitz

Photo by Carol Horvitz

Ajiki Hiro - Artists - Joan B Mirviss LTD | Japanese Fine Art | Japanese Ceramics

Born 1948, Shimane Prefecture
 

As a child, Ajiki Hiro dreamed of becoming an oil painter and world traveler. Throughout the early 1970s he traveled extensively, visiting more than thirty countries. Although his dream of oil painting never materialized, he found a new canvas in clay. For several decades, Ajiki has concentrated on perfecting the central element of the Japanese tea ceremony, the teabowl (chawan). In his teabowls, his goal is to express both his energy and personality. He views the tea ceremony as an intimate form of communication between the host and their guests, all sharing a spiritual experience. 

“The small space embraced within your palms [when holding a teabowl] becomes a mirror to reflect both yourself and the world around you, telling a story… the tea ceremony itself offers a space and time for communication as participants share equally in the moment.”

- Ajiki Hiro

Ajiki Hiro - Artists - Joan B Mirviss LTD | Japanese Fine Art | Japanese Ceramics

Baltimore Museum of Art Collection 

Selected Public Collections:

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
Worcester Art Museum, MA

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