Hiroshi Sueyoshi uses a rib tool to create a texture similar to a stucco wall. His first piece was a five-inch saucer. He was instructed to reproduce the shape 500 times but did not do it, he says, eyes twinkling. The production work was taxing, the days long ones. “After dinner, come back to the studios, was kind of young, but was still worn out,” he says softly. Now 46 years later, in his studio at CAM’s Pancoe Education Center last month, Hiroshi was preparing pieces for his upcom-ing one-man show. He dabbed wet sludge with a sculpting tool to stucco the surface of a large red clay rock roughly half his size. “Japanese culture is very related to nature and naturally kind of interesting — nature and human beings and the relationship between human beings and nature,” he explains. Defining the ages, old Japanese art aesthetic is hard to trans-late into words. “I think it has to do with simplicity, and respecting nature for the way it is,” Hiroshsi says. “To leave nature alone.” 20 WBM november 2014
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